Eddie Jones has said Georgia have ‘the strongest pack in the world’ and they head to Twickenham eager to prove a point

I remember watching Georgia play
England at the 2003 Rugby
World Cup at my local rugby club bar, struggling to see the screen above a crowd of men, all winter coats, half-drunk pints. Thousands of kids, myself included, idolised that team and wanted to emulate the flair of Jason Robinson or the precision of Jonny Wilkinson.
Twelve years later I would play my first game for the Georgia national sevens team, representing the country of my grandfather’s birth. I had a brief, blistering two years playing on the European sevens circuit for Georgia learning how important rugby is for this nation at the edge of Europe. Now, as Georgia prepare to play England next Saturday in the first of their Autumn Nations Cup matches at Twickenham, the shadow of their loss in 2003 has faded from view. Georgia is full of optimism about its future.