Jamie George: ‘Dylan Hartley talks to people because he’s a good captain’

The Saracens hooker is resigned to coming off the bench to replace his England rival but his increasing importance to Eddie Jones could translate into selection for the Lions tour of New Zealand this summerJamie George rips up the worst cliches about front-row forwards. There was a time when props and hookers were meant to be pug-faced knuckle-draggers who only smiled when remembering the moment they crushed an opponent’s testicles or grunted at an apocryphal story of how they drank a pint of aftershave. Of course the truth about the beefy men of rugby has been different for decades.George gri…