Henry Arundell, the new sensation from London Irish.
It will not be lost on him Leinster more or less equals Ireland, bar perhaps a sprinkling of Bundee Aki to enhance the you-know-what quotient.
While English clubs give up their England players for this impromptu camp, the serial champions from Dublin march on another European final. Leinster were the other phenomenon regularly namechecked. If we don’t have Manu, we need to find another way.” “If you haven’t got the power to win collisions, you’ve got to find another way and I can tell you that’s bloody hard. If Jones is calling for more power, his favoured source is of little secret. Both return from injury, with Tuilagi’s comeback particularly cherished.
Jones watches with interest to see how he rates in the third.īeing of Pacific island descent, Tuilagi and Cokanasiga are rich in pace and power. Arundell, the new sensation from London Irish, scores highly in the second category and sufficiently in the first. Jones cited power, pace and guts as the holy trinity of international rugby. Now, as the brain cried out like Captain Kirk for more power, the 1980s seemed a very long way away after all.Ī word cloud of Jones’s musings this past week would feature “Leinster”, “Manu Tuilagi” (a lot), “Joe Cokanasiga” and “Henry Arundell”. All the more poignant, given that not so very long ago – well, the 1980s anyway – that same body of Jones’s, albeit 40-odd years more youthful, belonged to a first-class front-row forward.