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Sale Sharks send message to Eddie Jones


England head coach Eddie Jones. (Photo by Henry Browne/Getty Images)
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With Sale Sharks’ season now over, they took to Twitter recently to congratulate winger Denny Solomona on finishing the regular season as the Premiership’s top try scorer.

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Alongside a video, Sale posted the message “Eddie Jones you watching”, clearly highlighting the winger’s exclusion from the England team this season. Solomona finished the season with 12 Premiership tries, as Sale finished seventh.

The 25-year-old earned the last of his five caps in England’s summer tour of South Africa in 2018, but Sale believe that being the league’s top try scorer means Jones should take notice of the rugby league convert.

However, this is a tough time for a winger to break into the England squad, with the likes of England Player of the Year Jonny May, Jack Nowell, Joe Cokanasiga, Elliot Daly, Chris Ashton and the returning Anthony Watson, having all played on either flank in the past few years. With Gloucester’s Ollie Thorley and Bath’s Ruaridh McConnochie having standout seasons for their clubs as well, it only makes the Sale man’s job that much harder to find a place in the World Cup squad.

However, all he can do is score tries for his club, which is what he has done. Although this may be because the England players have not played as many games as him, that does not take anything away from his achievement. He is a natural finisher, who has been prolific in both league and union, and is guaranteed to score tries for whomever he plays for.

Meanwhile, Northampton Saints were quick to rain on Sale’s parade, by pointing out that Solomona was only joint-top try scorer with their scrum-half Cobus Reinach.

Nonetheless, this is still a great achievement by Solomona, particularly as his team has not been on the the league’s high-flyers, and he must surely be on Jones’ radar.

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Nations Championship: 'The data shows the north has finally caught up with the south'

Fact: the gap between the North and the South has narrowed considerably - that I get. However, determining that only selecting only Home grown players or playing in the home country is is the optimal strategy is a bit of a toss up and highly reliant on the economies of the home union. I do understand that England and to a lesser degree Ireland selects home based only. The top 14 is a massive threat to their domestic product. France would probably not be affected (the money is at home). Fiji, Argentina, Samoa, Italy and you could even argue Scotland have only benefitted from this. Their players either go overseas to learn at higher levels (Fiji, Samoa, Argentina) or players coming into their leagues to strengthen the home product and their National teams (Scotland, Italy, Japan).

South Africa used to limit its selection to the home based players, but the reality of a weak currency vs what players could earn oversees meant that you lost access to your best players at some stage of their careers, with very few exceptions. Kolbe left SA as he was considered too small for International Rugby (yes coaches/selectors view), but ironically in France he forced selectors to notice his endeavors and select him. He is only reaching 50 caps now despite being north of 30 - granted rotation and the odd injury also played a role, but for the most part it is having debuted or becoming a regular so late.



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