Ask Jeremy Guscott

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Among the topics making the headlines this week are:
- Chris Robshaw's appointment as England captain for the autumn internationals
- Gloucester pair Freddie Burns and Billy Twelvetrees being added to the England squad
- Ireland losing Stephen Ferris for the autumn internationals after the Ulster flanker suffered an ankle injury
- London Welsh, tipped for Premiership relegation, winning yet again
- Saracens drawing level on points with Harlequins at the top of the Premiership
- Unbeaten Ulster making it seven wins out of seven in the Pro12
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The lions selectors normally provide a surprise or two when the squad is announced. Prior to the autumn internationals and Six Nations, can you predict any players that might emerge as dark horse candidates?
Tipuric and Wade are two who, as long as Wales and England respectively give them a chance over the next few months, would be my picks.
Would you consider Saracens go into a game looking to conceed less than the opposition than score more than them? If so, why is that the English back line looks to be heavily dominated with Saracens players (may not all start but - Farrell, Aston, Barritt, Goode) when Lancaster said they wanted to play a expansive game, very unlike Saracens.
Off topic - most disappointing England squad since MJ world cup announcement. My XV:
Marler
Paice
Cole
Lawes (if fit)
Botha
Robshaw (c)
Saull / Armitage
Eater
Care
Cipriani
Wade
Tuilagi
Joseph
Ashton
Brown
Subs
Mullan
Gray / Youngs
Launchbury
Wood
Youngs
Flood
Armitage
So far you have predicted LW losing in all 8 weeks although I have noticed you are a bit more conservative in how much by. Now that they have won 3 times and been coming close in other games, can you ever see yourself predicting a LW victory?
PS Please keep predicting losses as I think it is the underdog title that lets us do so well
With London Welsh doing far better than anyone thought they would do this season have you reconsidered your views on promotion and relegation? I know your not a fan, but without it we wouldn’t have had this surprising and interesting story to the season.
Thanks Ben
I would be very interested to see how the Championship develops if Sale or Irish go down and Bedford beat the Falcons in the play off, giving 2 established clubs along with Bristol giving us 2 exciting leagues!
The feeding is terrible... But London Welsh did win 2 against the head on Sunday vs Bath.
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