England’s Nations Championship plans hit by Pepper and Van Rensburg double blow
Bath flanker Pepper injured ankle at Gloucester on Friday Bristol’s Van Rensburg advised to rest after two concussions England’s head coach, Steve Borthwick, said he will be monitoring this weekend’s domestic Prem games with some trepidation.
Key points
- Pepper’s involvement always looked improbable from the moment he sustained a nasty-looking ankle injury against Gloucester last Friday.
Already he has lost at least two potentially key squad members for the entire autumn period in the form of Guy Pepper and Benhard van Rensburg, with doubts still hanging over his first-choice fly-half, Fin Smith, and fresh injury uncertainty emerging on virtually a daily basis.
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