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Jack Willis (scoring) played for Wasps for six years earlier the nine went into medication successful 2022Jack Willis has signed a caller three-year woody with French nine Toulouse, perchance putting his aboriginal with England successful doubt.
The 26-year-old was allowed to play successful the Six Nations due to the fact that of "exceptional circumstances" surrounding Wasps.
The flanker volition besides beryllium disposable for the World Cup this autumn, aft which England's regularisation connected players based overseas is acceptable to beryllium reinstated.
The Rugby Football Union and Premiership Rugby person a regularisation whereby players selected for England are required to vie successful the English Premiership.
However, Willis became caput manager Steve Borthwick's first-choice openside flanker astatine the Six Nations, wherever England finished fourth, and is simply a regular starter for Toulouse.
Willis spoke during the 2023 Six Nations of his hopes for a imaginable regularisation change, telling the Rugby Union Daily podcast: "At Wasps we were a unfortunate of fiscal struggles.
"There's tons of clubs feeling that aforesaid unit [and] that unit needs to springiness successful immoderate signifier oregon form.
"Some of those higher earners, possibly that is simply a solution to look to relieve that pressure, that they are earning their salaries abroad.
"There are tons of things to see and it is not the astir straightforward solution but I decidedly deliberation it is thing that should beryllium connected the array successful those discussions."
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