On August 22 last year, Eddie Jones travelled to Leicester to watch the Tigers’ game against Bath. It was a day he had been waiting for and the reason was that he had earmarked the potential of George Martin, the 19-year-old back-five player, and wanted to witness his Gallagher Premiership debut. Martin had spent a day in the England camp the previous March, so he was very much on Jones’s radar, so much so that Jones didn’t travel to Leicester alone, he brought John Mitchell and Matt Proudfoot, two other England coaches, with him.
So when Martin was called up to the England bench last Saturday, still only 19 and having only ever started three matches in the Premiership, what seemed like a bolt from
