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WHY ENGLAND SHOULD RECALL ZACH MERCER

ZACH MERCER is a prodigious talent. He burst onto the scene with Bath and England U20 in 2016-17 and won a couple of full Test caps in 2018.

I remember nominating the No 8 as Man of the Match whilst commentating on a Wales-England U20 game at Colwyn Bay. His swashbuckling performance included aggressive tackling, supreme handling and offloading, nuisance

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