Ben Morgan the England RU no.8 is shorter by 2 inches, the same weight & age as SB, he's considered to be one of the top English forwards.
SB would run rings around him in every single dept.
On Saturday against Australia BM made 9 runs, the most of any player (out of a total 50 for the whole team) covering 31 metres (total 203!) and made 12 tackles with a massive ONE pass (out of 71 team total).
Australia passed 3 times more, made three times as many metres and 3 times as many runs, beat more men, made more clean breaks made 3 times LESS tackles BUT crucially turned the ball over more often & were beaten.
By rights Australia should have walked this, they were the more attractive to watch, broke tackles at will, got the ball out wide yet England played rugby union whereas Australia played rubgy.
SB will be wasted even if he gets in the England squad, they play dire, boring uninteresting rugby but tactically it will win them games..Lancaster can only play one way and the results speak for themselves. I'd rather watch the French or Welsh national teams anyday.
South Africa or New Zealand will win the RUWC and SB will come back to league a richer and wiser man in a few years time. IF he decides to stay in union it'll be for the money and nothing else because deep down if he really has that desire as an athlete that he shows playing league every day a little bit of him will die whilst freezing his b'll'cks off in the centres..