Ollie Sleightholme has the happy knack of appearing in the line at just the right time to take a short pass, and Tommy Freeman must have been one of the few men who knew where Fin was heading as he drifted back into the pocket, turned sideways, and hoisted a high, hanging kick into the far corner where Freeman was ready, and waiting to leap for it and score in the corner.
He is the best young Smith to start at fly-half for England since, well, the last young Smith to start at fly-half for England.
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Marcus Smith often plays like a jazz musician who’s been accidentally recruited into a marching band, he can’t help himself but launch into another solo, freewheeling his way up, down, and around the scales while the men around him struggle to guess where he’s going to lead them next.
At quarter to five on Saturday afternoon, Fin Smith, 22, looked awfully young to be leading England’s backline out at Twickenham.
