Alex Goode: ‘Everyone wants to knock Saracens off our perch’

Premiership leaders head to Exeter on Saturday and their full-back says maintaining hunger when you have tasted success is always the hardest task

It was hard not to feel sympathy for Alex Goode during England’s autumn internationals campaign. Not so much for his continued snub – the Saracens full-back is now well accustomed to life in Eddie Jones’s blind spot – but more for his role as guest pundit at Twickenham, inches from the pitch he so desperately still longs to play on.

Hardly surprising however, is that Goode has been cropping up more and more on the punditry circuit, having appeared on both BBC 5 Live and BT Sport of late. For there are few with Goode’s rugby intellect around, not to mention his glittering CV, now 10 years on from his Saracens debut. “I find it quite easy to talk nonsense … to talk about rugby,” he says. “I’ve played the game for a long time and I think about the game quite a bit, so if I can give a few helpful insights into the day-to-day and what people are trying to achieve from what you see on the pitch, then great.”

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