Henry Pollock (left) and Northampton team-mate Alex Coles (centre) were on hand to celebrate Ben Earl's opening try
Hybrid players are a bit like concept cars - glitzy, intriguing ideas but, when push comes to shove, coaches have invariably chosen something more reliable and conventional to actually go from A to B.
Eddie Jones talked up the possibility during his time as England coach. He thought wing Jack Nowell could work as a flanker. He posited that Tom Curry and Sam Underhill might head in the opposite direction and play in the backline.
But Jones never followed through on the idea. The division between backs and forwards remained. Orthodoxies survived.
But Jones' successor Steve Borthwick might be the one to finally take the plunge.
