Tom Youngs should benefit from Geoff Parling’s lineout knowledge | Dean Ryan

The lineout takes many forms but with England’s hooker being reunited with his Leicester team-mate against Ireland results should improveDo the maths. If you want to know what’s on Tom Youngs’s mind when he steps up to throw to his first lineout at Twickenhamon Saturday, you have to know the options. At a full seven-man lineout he probably has five; at a five-man that’s probably another three or four and at a three-man it’s down to a couple, although there’s scope for some funny stuff. Conservatively, that’s 10. Now multiply the total by the different styles of throw – at least three, before t…

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