If Jones is calling for more power, his favoured source is of little secret. Both return from injury, with Tuilagi’s comeback particularly cherished. Jones watches with interest to see how he rates in the third.īeing of Pacific island descent, Tuilagi and Cokanasiga are rich in pace and power.
Arundell, the new sensation from London Irish, scores highly in the second category and sufficiently in the first. Jones cited power, pace and guts as the holy trinity of international rugby. Now, as the brain cried out like Captain Kirk for more power, the 1980s seemed a very long way away after all.Ī word cloud of Jones’s musings this past week would feature “Leinster”, “Manu Tuilagi” (a lot), “Joe Cokanasiga” and “Henry Arundell”. All the more poignant, given that not so very long ago – well, the 1980s anyway – that same body of Jones’s, albeit 40-odd years more youthful, belonged to a first-class front-row forward.
