With 11 frontline players away with the Lions, England’s head coach will favour youth in his selections for July’s internationals
Summer has arrived at last and, after England’s winter of discontent, Eddie Jones will attempt to put a dismal Six Nations campaign and a review by his Twickenham employers behind him and lay the foundations for the next
World Cup.
On Thursday, England’s head coach announces a squad to face
Scotland in an A team fixture at Leicester on 27 July and for two internationals against the
United States and
Canada at Twickenham in early July. The accent will be on youth. With 11 of his frontline players going to
South Africa on the Lions tour, Jones has the chance to cast an eye over some of the emerging talent in a Premiership season that because of the pandemic seems never-ending.