Freddie Steward

Right, Marcus, we got a question from a fan saying, it all kicked off between Leicester and Northampton with multiple England players involved.

In particular, Henry Pollock, Oli Chessham and Freddie Stewart.

What's it like when something like this happens before camp? Is it awkward or is there banter between the players?

I think there would have been a bit of anxiety coming in, obviously, because... we all knew we were meeting on the Sunday night.

I did enjoy Steve Orthogon Tuesday because naturally he was asked about Olly Chesson versus Henry Pollock.

I actually think the main culprit there, by the way, if you want to pick someone out, is Freddie Stewart shoving Pollock up the steps.

Everybody, no one's talking about Freddie Stewart.

Everyone's like, oh yeah, Jessamyn Pollock, like Stewart's like, anyway, I thoroughly enjoyed all of it.

So feed me more.

So there is, without question, a period this weekend where I'll be hoping that the players come through their games, OK? And then we'll have a great test week next week.

What did you make of the Leicester-Northampton game? Just picking that one out because to your point there, you had guys like Oli Chessham and Henry Pollock and Freddie Stewart and Tommy Freeman eyeball to eyeball the next night they're having dinner together in England camp.

How is everything between those guys? Would you have known from seeing them interact in camp that they'd been at each other's throats 24 hours earlier?

In so many ways, I think if you tried to explain this to somebody who didn't know the ins and outs of rugby and being in the England environment, I think it would be very hard to explain.

And yeah, we saw that the weekend and we saw some things that they're talking about from the other side as well.

Freddie Stewart came out, didn't he? Post-match

and said

how much he loves it.

When you talk about how much derbies mean to players, watching Leicester and how they conducted themselves, we could talk about all the stuff as they were walking in at half-time.

We will do.

But Freddie Stewart's comments after the match about just, this is the

game.

You're going to see some lad who's probably working as a dentist or something coming up now to play hooker.

absolutely crazy uh you know Dobson said that you know he had he had a contingency sheet obviously covered losing two hookers but never three like that's that's mental you have to find a short-term place and I'd I'd wonder now will they actually look elsewhere to look out to bring someone in and just hope to god they're good or will they go down uh the likes I remember it was at Gloucester last year had a lad who was uh I think it was a solicitor or a banker had to come in and play a hooker I'm nearly sure I had to dig that off now uh but absolutely crazy there you'd never see that uh all their hookers are gone now three of them obviously lost the injury there all in one game and then Coltsdale losing that red card appeal just mental mental and then the last thing there Henry Pollock my god he is after brewing up never mind the pun with Storm Chloe brewing up a storm he if you've seen it an absolute brawl there on the halftime whistle it started when Adam Radwan there pushed Alex Mitchell and then Pollock just squared off to his opponents and most of them of which he plays in the English squad with but the row which was the most interesting part followed on up the stairs into the changing rooms so I think Pollock tried to be smart and he was standing in front of them pulled up his socks and held up loads of players and then was pushed by Freddie Stewart and Chesson just bringing up a whole lot again then So absolutely crazy.

I'd implore you to go and watch the little snippet of that because the camera followed him up the whole way.

Absolutely mental.