The Rugby Paper

Warm up for 2022

- Nicolas Stevenson

A SLUGGISH start to the Six Nations removes the chances of an England Grand Slam.

When looking ahead to 2022 is there not a case (with England having only two home fixtures) to invite an internatio­nal team to play the Saturday before the championsh­ip starts?

Training takes you only so far and this would shake up any players who are off the game pace in advance. I suspect, priced sensibly and paying a proportion of the gate to the guest XV, 82,000 would probably turn up and it doesn’t take a genius to know that the RFU coffers need significan­t re-filling too!

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