When Eddie Jones said every club would now be looking in the bars of Cardiff Met for rugby players, it was a classic quip from the garrulous Aussie.
But, on a more serious note, he also called the Cyncoed college “a popular breeding ground for Test match rugby players” and he has provided further proof of that with the latest addition to his England squad.
Jones has just drafted in uncapped London Irish back row forward Tom Pearson, a 22-year-old who only graduated from Cardiff Met last summer.
