Care is England's best says Easter
Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:19
Experience Harlequins No. 8 Nick Easter had backed his teammate Danny Care to retain his place as England’s first choice scrumhalf for the November Internationals.
Care has been in fantastic form for his club so far this season and was again his sides a major catalyst for Quins as they thumped Ulster in their Heineken Cup Pool Four clash on Saturday.
Easter, speaking on Skysports News, said that Care was perhaps one of a only a handful of players to emerge from the ill-fated summer tour with their reputation enhanced and that he would be genuinely surprised if Martin Johnson chose not to select him as his first choice No. 9.
"I think he's surely got to be the starting number nine,
"He was the form number nine at the tail-end of last year, he got the start in New Zealand. I think he was one of the few high moments on that tour and he's just carried on that form in the Premiership.
"He was the Player of the Month in the first month and sides think they can mark him and handle, him but he can still produce the goods like he did on Saturday.”
The 30 year-old admitted that most scrumhalf have a tendency to be far too focal on and off the pitch but that his talented teammate got his point across in the right way.
"He's a great guy, a cheeky little chappie as you'd expect from a scrum-half, but he does his talking on the field. He does chat on it and off it he's cheeky but there's not too much banter.
"Sometimes scrum-halves do chat a little too much, but Danny does his talking with his boots."
