Saracens’ Billy Vunipola: ‘You build relationships by being vulnerable’

The No8 talks about anxieties over Lions selection, Saracens’ culture of success and how his game has improved since Eddie Jones’s England arrivalPerhaps it should not be surprising it takes someone of Billy Vunipola’s size to tackle the elephant in the room. “Everyone says: ‘I’m not thinking about the Lions’ – they’re all lying,” he says. “It’s all the media training, everyone is scared of saying: ‘I’m scared of not going.’”Vunipola is in candid mood. Here is an England international admitting defeat in Dublin may be a good thing, a member of the all-conquering Saracens side shining a light o…