Minute-by-minute report: ‘Le Crunch’ returns with this year’s edition at Twickenham. Join Lee Calvert
And so it’s finally happened. After nearly eight full years, Owen Farrell will not start an England game he is fit and available for, and moreover the majority of the watching public have their yearned for replacement: Marcus Smith.
Leaving aside that there is a very daft compulsion in too many to malign Farrell, there is some merit in why Smith is preferred to him by Borthwick. England have played their brief moments at their best when the ball has been quick, and the approach of speed being more important than shape is manna for Marcus. England have also decided that Olly Lawrence is the way forward at 12, attempting to replicate dynamic of the Smith-Esterhuizen axis at Quins.
France have a key change of their own and it couldn’t be more different with Jonathan Danty back in the centre. Where England have gone for a lighter, flightier attacking keystone, Fabien Galthie has realised he needs a giant lad to run it up in the heart of his backline. Danty has not hugely convinced at this level before, but his absence has made him look approximately 347% better for this side.
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