Eddie Jones’s forward thinking could backfire for England in Italy | Dean Ryan

A bench of six forwards and only two backs suggests the starting front five will be asked to run themselves into the ground and take the game away from Italy before being replaced. But what if there are injuries in the backline?Eddie Jones has said he is merely changing his batting order by making three changes to the England starting lineup for Sunday’s game against Italy. The players removed from the starting XV will all come off the bench at some stage and so it is only a question of who plays at which point of the game, not of anyone having been dropped.This may well be true, and the selec…