Smith impressed for Harlequins at the weekend but is competing with Owen Farrell and George Ford for a place in Steve Borthwick's side
Whatever the case, we are talking about an England style; a Borthwick playing philosophy. The choices he makes will be crucial to the remaining Six Nations matches against France and Ireland in the next fortnight, and all the more so in the World Cup in September.
Danny Care, the Harlequins scrum-half, picked out the key issues on Saturday evening. “He is in a tough position,” Care said of Smith. “The captain in that England team, annoyingly for him, is the [number] 10. It’s testament to his [Smith’s] character how he played today – he did his special things, but he also did the basics incredibly well. I don’t know how many tackles he made but he put his body on the line for the team.
Quins say they were determined to come up with an accurate figure – which beat their own existing record, from ‘Big Game 13’ in December 2021, by 6000 – and asked Panoramic Imaging, a London photographic company, to take a high-resolution 360-degree picture of the stadium approximately halfway through the second half.
It took five hours to verify the number as a team of three people used specialist software to tag the face of every spectator and tot up the total, rather than rely on a more nebulous count of fans who might have been present in the stadium grounds, ahead of the men’s match being played later, but not all in the stands.
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