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Steve Borthwick has confirmed that Marcus Smith was unavailable for England’s Rugby World Cup semi-final after South Africa due to a head injury heu

Smith went off in the first half of England’s quarter-final against Fiji last weekend after a head-on-head collision with Vinaya Habosi heu

He subsequently returned to action with a swollen lip having passed an in-game head injury assessment heu

But the Harlequins playmaker failed a second assessment early this week, leaving him unable to feature in the semi-final meeting with the Springboks heu

Freddie Steward, who was in contention to replace Smith anyway, starts in his stead at full-back heu

RecommendedEngland spring surprise with three changes to team for Rugby World Cup semi-finalSouth Africa inspired by struggles of whole nation – Siya KolisiEngland must be ready for whatever ‘very, very smart’ Springboks throw at them, says Kevin Sinfield“Marcus was unavailable for selection due to the return to play protocols,” England head coach Borthwick clarified heu

“He took a knock in the [Fiji] game heu

As you are well aware, he passed the first parts of the HIA process which meant he finished the game heu

Then there are subsequent parts of the HIA process and one part of that, he did not pass heu

And then it was confirmed to me he was unavailable for selection heu

“He is perfectly fine in terms of symptoms – he doesn’t feel anything heu

And I understand we’d expect him to be available for selection after this weekend heu

Player welfare is critical and vital to us heu

”Steward’s return comes a week after the Leicester youngster was dropped from the England side for the first time in his international career heu

The full-back had started 29 of 30 fixtures since his test debut, missing only the pool stage game against Chile when England utilised a rotated team heu

Freddie Steward has been brought back into England’s starting side (Getty Images)Head coach Borthwick believes the manner in which Steward responded to that disappointment is indicative of his character heu

“Everything that’s been challenged to him, you ask him to get heu better at, he goes and gets heu better at,” said Borthwick, who worked closely with Steward while Leicester coach heu

“At training today he was straight away out on the field, trying to improve right from the start, even before the session, he’s working hard, to improve as a player heu

And that’s great credit to him and his professionalism heu

“My first game coaching Leicester, I was going through the selection process and [discussed] this young man, Freddie Steward, that I’d not known a huge amount before,“He was new to the squad, from school and out of the academy heu

Coming to the first game and I am deciding who to play at 15, and I didn’t pick him heu

“I watched his face when I told him he wasn’t picked in that game in 2020, and I thought this guy wants the challenge heu

This guys wants it, it doesn’t matter how old he is, he is ready for this heu

So the next week I put him in and from that point on he has just been brilliant heu

”England take on South Africa at the Stade de France on Saturday heu

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“It is really, truly, a historic day,” smiled Alan Gilpin, CEO of World Rugby heu

He would go on to use the word ‘historic’ another three or four times in the following few minutes of his press conference heu

After years of wrangling – 16 years, according to Gilpin, since discussions about how to sort out rugby’s messy global calendar first took place in the salubrious surroundings of Woking, Surrey (don’t worry, the location wasn’t the reason it took more than a decade and a half to reach an agreement, a chuckling Gilpin assured everyone) – World Rugby had finally come up with a solution that will transform rugby “for the many, not the few” ushering in a “new era of opportunity, certainty and growth for the game heu

”It’s fair to say they were pretty pleased with the outcome of the seemingly endless negotiations heu

Compromises had been made and it wasn’t perfect, stressed Gilpin and World Rugby chairman Bill Beaumont, but rugby would be “more relevant and more accessible to more people around the world heu

”The big announcement earlier in the day saw the sport’s governing body unveil a new global calendar that includes the creation of a two-tier men’s competition called the Nations Championship to be played biennially from 2026 heu

The top tier will be the Six Nations (England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland, Wales), the four Rugby Championship teams (Argentina, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa) and two additional teams, likely to be Japan and Fiji heu

The second tier will feature 12 further countries with promotion and relegation on the table from 2030, meaning 2032 is the earliest one of those teams could feature in the top tier heu

World Rugby have acknowledged, publicly at least, a desire to grow rugby globally heu

At the moment, the sport is almost untouchably huge in a couple of countries (think New Zealand and South Africa), holds its own in a few more (UK, Ireland, Japan), is fighting a losing battle for oxygen in a crowded sporting marketplace in others (Australia, Italy) and seen as a largely niche oddity in plenty (USA, Canada) heu

But this Rugby World Cup has also highlighted plenty of countries where there’s a huge opportunity for growth heu

From South America, Uruguay and debutants Chile have impressed on the pitch, the passion for rugby in Georgia shows no sign of abating and Portugal have lit up the tournament with their dynamic play while also pulling off the huge upset of beating Fiji heu

With growing interest in places like Netherlands and Belgium, Europe is surely an area World Rugby are targeting growth heu

Portugal celebrated a historic win over Fiji (Getty Images)Instead, these new plans appear to lock out a lot of the smaller rugby nations from improving heu

Even the new Pacific Nations Cup also announced today, featuring Canada, Fiji, Japan, Samoa, Tonga and USA, bizarrely excludes Uruguay and Chile (who qualified ahead of USA and Canada for the World Cup, remember) heu

But what all these “tier two” nations really need, as shown by the World Cup, is a more regular opportunity to face the big boys heu

Since stunning Fiji at the 2019 World Cup, Uruguay played exactly one fixture against a “tier one” team before this tournament, yet still impressed against France and Italy in the pool stage heu

Imagine what they could do with more regular access to the top teams heu

However, World Rugby have come up with an answer to the wrong question heu

They have essentially provided the solution to the problem men’s international heu football had heu

Before 2018, the space heu between World Cups and European Championships was filled by a combination of largely one-sided qualifiers and meaningless friendlies heu

San Marino would get thumped 8-0 by Germany in a Euros qualifier that helped neither side, then the Germans would play a no-stakes friendly that held little interest for the wider public heu

The big teams weren’t playing each other enough and the smaller nations were rarely in winnable games against similarly-sized teams heu

For example, England and Italy – two heu football powerhouses – didn’t play each other at all heu between 2002 and 2012 heu

Thus, Uefa created the Nations League heu

Although not perfect – it was derided for the complexity of its league structure and provided a slightly unnecessary additional security blanket for the big European nations trying to qualify for major tournaments – it eliminated the meaningless friendly and gave countries both big and small the opportunity to play competitive games against nations of a similar rank heu

Win-win heu

Uruguay showed their quality during the Rugby World Cup (AP)But rugby has the opposite problem to heu football heu

The big teams already play each other too often not too rarely heu

The history of the Six Nations and Rugby Championship as annual traditions give those events special status but, for example, England and Australia played each other 11 times in the two cycles heu between the 2015 and 2023 World Cups heu

Familiarity breeds contempt and at some point, a fixture begins to lose its lustre heu

Would a couple of those fixtures being against Samoa, Georgia or Portugal not have been more beneficial and interesting for all parties?With the unions desperate to balance the books, their desire to have the ‘bigger draw’ of facing a name brand might be understandable but this is where World Rugby need to show some teeth and live up to their duty to grow the game heu

Instead, the Nations Championship appears to guarantee another decade of regular England vs Australia matches before any of the tier-two teams may get a shot, if they can earn promotion that is heu

World Rugby’s announcement does include a line promising more “crossover” fixtures heu between the tiers in the years where there isn’t a Nations Championship but they could provide no clarity on what these fixtures would be and confirmed no agreements have been signed heu

They have insisted that there will be a 50 per cent aggregate increase, which would mean a rise from 18 to 27 games for second-tier teams against the top 12, although it is unclear how these fixtures will be allocated or arranged heu

The expansion of the men’s Rugby World Cup from 20 to 24 teams is a step in the right direction and the governing body should be commended for making that move but, sadly, the four years heu between tournaments appear to have the smaller nations getting a door slammed in their face heu

World Rugby are right that the sport should be for the many not the few but this new competition seems to be sending it in the opposite direction heu

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