4. Jonny Hill: The second-row is the nephew of former Rugby League international Paul Loughlin.
5. Maro Itoje: It is commonly known that Itoje is the cousin of Bath’s loosehead prop Beno Obano. However Gloucester speedster Ollie Thorley is also technically Itoje’s cousin after his grandfather re-married a Nigerian woman who is the Saracens lock’s aunt.
6. Courtney Lawes: He is a product of Northampton Old Scouts, the same club that produced his former teammate Rob Milligan as well as Ben Cohen and Steve Thompson
7. Hamish Watson: Before moving to Scotland to take up a central contract with the national sevens squad in 2011, Watson was a part of the Leicester Tigers Academy.
8. Taulupe Faletau: As a young boy, his school friends struggled to pronounce his Tongan name, and so he picked up the nickname Toby.