Conor O'Shea: 'Our job is to identify great players. Not stocking fillers'

The RFU’s director of performance rugby is hunting for gems among England’s lost generation and has found some ‘completely different animals’It sounds counterintuitive but England’s finishing position in this year’s Six Nations is almost the least of the Rugby Football Union’s current concerns. There is the Covid-19 financial pain, of course, and surging up on the rails is a proposal to bolt the Premiership’s relegation trapdoor for the next four years. Decisions made in the coming months will define English rugby for a generation or more.Many of the issues are interlinked and fundamental to t…