Wasps scrum-half Joe Simpson will use head-to-head with Ben Youngs as launchpad to England World Cup squad

Wasps scrum-half Joe Simpson will use head-to-head with Ben Youngs as launchpad to England World Cup squad
The Aviva Premiership judges have been swayed.

Now for Stuart Lancaster.

Joe Simpson was a popular choice as April player of the month and with a head-to-head against the England and Leicester scrum-half Ben Youngs on Saturday at a sold-out Ricoh Arena, Simpson has the perfect stage on which to show why he ought to be a late inclusion in Lancaster’s 45-man Rugby World Cup training squad to be named on May 20.

The eye is easily drawn to Simpson, a tightly-packed ball of energy with a turbocharged break in his repertoire.

He scored one of the tries of this or any other season against E…

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