SO, DOES SIZE REALLY MATTER?

HARRY THACKER is flying the flag for the little man in a sport where everyone seems to be getting bigger.

Even hookers, historically the shortest forwards on the pitch, have shot up with Springbok man mountain Malcolm Marx weighing in at 18 stone and standing 6ft 2in — that’s six inches taller than Thacker. Current England captain

Dylan Hartley is 6ft 1in, though Thacker will be well aware that another ‘shorty’, 5ft 9in Brian

Moore, was in the heart of the front row when England reached the 1991 World Cup final.