(Reuters) – England captain Owen Farrell might head into the Six Nations with out having performed for months after his scheduled comeback for Saracens in opposition to London Irish within the Champions Cup on the weekend was thrown into doubt.
The flyhalf was named within the England squad by head coach Eddie Jones on Tuesday, regardless of not having performed since November resulting from an ankle damage sustained in opposition to Australia.
“There’s going to be a late determination on Owen. This is the primary week he is finished any crew coaching,” stated Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall.
“We’ve simply bought to see how he reacts to the coaching. Owen has labored exhausting … we’ll see, in direction of the top of the week, whether or not he is ready to participate within the match this Sunday.”
England, who start their preparations for the Six Nations at a camp in Brighton on Monday, open their marketing campaign away to Scotland on Feb. 5.
Jones defended his determination to retain Farrell as skipper on Wednesday, saying that the 30-year-old stays “the fitting man for the job”, regardless of his detached kind in current seasons and lack of minutes on the pitch.
“What we noticed with Owen in November, within the brief time he performed, was actually constructive, he got here again in rejuvenated,” stated Jones.
“And you additionally have gotten to recollect these Saracens blokes have had a very robust time. I actually did not admire it as a lot as I ought to have. I believed they may come again within the Six Nations (in 2021) and play on the degree they may, and I overestimated that.”
(Reporting by Dhruv Munjal in Bengaluru; Editing by Kenneth Maxwell)
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