Hurricanes Rugby Jersey<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cHe makes me feel very comfortable and like I can be myself and I love that about him.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn the field, he\u2019s an absolute beast. He\u2019s a freak with the ball in hand, he\u2019s got brilliant hands at the line and he bangs pretty hard in defence.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s lovely to look outside and know he\u2019s there because he\u2019s always got my back, which is pretty special.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe adds a fear factor to our team. I know that because when I play him I get that!\u201d<\/p>\n
Missing experienced Farrell<\/h3>\n
Owen Farrell has been out with a concussion but has still been involved in Smith\u2019s preparation. The 23-year-old revealed a need to step up vocally when a player of Farrell\u2019s experience is unavailable.<\/p>\n
\u201cOwen\u2019s a brilliant player and he\u2019s been in form at the start of the season,\u201d Smith said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s got 97 caps and he\u2019s been a massive loss so we\u2019ve had to be adaptable. We\u2019ve all had to step up in our leadership and speak a bit more.<\/p>\n
\u201cI texted him a few times and the backs had a Zoom with him in Jersey when we could bat some ideas off him.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe communicated with him because we feel like he can spot things and add things that we may have missed from being in the thick of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
After the Argentina Test, England welcomes Japan and then closes off the Autumn Nations Series with two blockbuster Tests against the All Blacks and the Springboks.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
England\u2019s Marcus Smith is excited at the prospect of playing alongside the \u201cabsolute beast\u201d Manu Tuilagi during the upcoming Autumn Nations Series. The duo are set to start against Argentina and could pose huge issues for Michael Cheika\u2019s side in what is set to be a brilliant Test at Twickenham. Smith is looking forward to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}