Elliot Daly

I think Guy Pepper fully deserves it on his performances, um, not only for England, but for Bath as well.

Uh, Elliot Daly steps out.

Tom Roebuck steps out as well.

That's interesting- Mm ... 'cause he was like one of his boys, wasn't he? Yeah, early on.

The worst thing could happen from a development aspect is just put them all in together at any point in the year because they don't learn the lessons.

They don't get the conversations with an Elliot Daly or an Owen Farrell consistently on the field in the moment that can just fast-track development.

And obviously previously, Deanian also be the development work in Stockton purely because they couldn't bring in the foreigners of experience for nine years they could.

We've got unbelievable experience here with this, with this current squad.

And also as well, when we've shouted last year about we want this young player, that young player, and this young player, you know, at the back and everything, I really found it insightful that they're not gonna do that.

You need those senior players there.

And when you stop and think about it, it makes total sense that, you know, you need those Elliot Dalys.

Tobias isn't gonna learn, Noah's not gonna l- Jack Bracken's not gonna learn without that knowledge there, and it makes total sense.

Um, in terms of selection, Elgin, I think probably the headline out of this, I mean, Maro Itoje returns as we expect.

Elliot Daly is back in.

Tobias Elliott as well, one of those younger guys, um, which I think is quite exciting.

But no Courtney Lawes.

Well, I mean, I'll go for my seven before we jump into that debate shortly.

I've gone for Elliot Daly as my seven.

Obviously, you boys had him in on your outside centers list, didn't you? Bit of a strange one for me because I think if I was picking Daly, I'd be picking him at outside center.

He's much better He's much more impactful, in my opinion.

Nonetheless, a very, very capable 15.

I think the last couple of seasons, I know he had that season where he was pretty much out the whole season with Bristol where he was injured.

He's been, he was in and out, he had quite a few issues there.

And then, so we said about Daly sort of started fullback.

Um, like Owen Farrell's really good.

Elliot Daly's really good.

You know, they're, they're proper footballers.

So we do young boys versus old boys, and I'm just about, I'm still in the young boys, but just about.

But yeah, no, no forwards luckily, otherwise I'd be staying well away from Mario.

[laughs] Yeah, when we were actually at Saracens I was talking to Jamie George, 'cause we were talking about the cricket they were warming up with.

He said, "Yeah, it's a bit boring with Elliot Daly.

He's just really good at everything."

Carry on.

I've got Elliot Daly at nine.

Elliot Daly?

Yeah.

Okay.

We're on number eight.

Eight.

So I've actually gone for, similar to James, but I went for Elliot Daly at number eight, so I had him slightly higher.