Eddie Jones eyes Maro Itoje for No7 role in England’s autumn internationals

Saracens lock in line to take James Haskell’s shirt as head coach aims to maximise resources for Twickenham series by relaxing rigid job descriptionsEddie Jones was not pulling a flanker when he said, after revealing his England squad for the autumn internationals at Twickenham, that he was considering handing Maro Itoje the No7 jersey. Itoje’s brief international career has been spent in the second row, but he has played for Saracens at blindside forward, the position he occupied when he made his debut for the club, and moving him into James Haskell’s position would give Jones the option of p…