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You are dumped - Danny

- By NEIL SQUIRES FORWARDS:

NO LOVE: Cipriani DANNY CIPRIANI’S England career has come to a dead end after Eddie Jones told him he had fallen out of love with him.

The Gloucester fly-half, who started England’s last Test against South Africa in June, was yesterday axed for the four autumn Tests.

Despite being voted September’s Premiershi­p player of the month, Cipriani has been overlooked for the 36-man squad.

England coach Jones, who is preparing for the first Test against South Africa on November 3, said: “I rang him on the phone to tell him. Have you ever had a girl tell you that she doesn’t love you? You don’t remember the rest of the conversati­on.

“When you tell them they’re not in, they say, ‘Yes, yes’, but they don’t hear anything.

“At the end of the day, it comes down to a judgement. So people think he’s played well?

“Well, maybe I don’t think he’s played that well.

“The judgement is that he’s the third choice in our hierarchy at the moment. George Ford and Owen Farrell are our first two No.10s. I have made it very explicit to him what he needs to work on. And that’s all I can do.”

Farrell and Dylan Hartley were named as co-captains in a trial run for next year’s World Cup.

Hepburn, Moon, George, Hartley, Williams, Sinckler, Schonert, Itoje, Kruis, Lawes, Ewels, Stooke, Shields, Wilson, Hill, Rhodes, Underhill, T Curry, Mercer, Morgan. BACKS: Youngs, Care, Wiggleswor­th, Farrell, Ford, Tuilagi, Lozowski, Slade, Te’o, Cokanasiga, Earle, May, Nowell, Ashton, Brown, Daly.

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