Matt Symons: ‘I was eligible to play for New Zealand but I am English’

The Harlequins lock is relishing playing against his former Wasps teammates in the Big GameRob Baxter summed up the dilemma of preparing a side to face Harlequins. “The trouble with facing teams who are patchy is that you do not know which patch you are going to hit,” Exeter’s head coach said a month ago. The Chiefs duly lost their unbeaten record at the Stoop a week after their hosts had been beaten at Worcester.Quins followed up the victory over last season’s beaten Premiership finalists by succumbing to Leicester, a side that had gone into the game at Welford Road on an eight-match losing s…