Jack Willis, a two-time Top 14 player of the year, has found more than just a club in Toulouse, with the Englishman now considering becoming French. Elected Monday night as Top 14 player of the year for the second consecutive year during the Night of Rugby, Willis surpassed Matthieu Jalibert and Harry Plummer after a 2025-2026 season concluded with a fourth Brennus trophy with Toulouse. He played 23 league matches for 1,380 minutes and six tries. This consistency contrasts with his abrupt arrival in Haute-Garonne in the autumn of 2022, following the dissolution of Wasps. Willis recalls: three weeks after losing his position with Wasps, he was already living in France. Four years later, his peers have just named him Top 14 player of the year for two consecutive years. The Englishman describes his role simply: putting "the head in the rucks" while his teammates do "the incredible things." In Homecoming for Bros. Stories, he explains he had to move away from the highly structured rugby he was used to in England and develop his offensive play to better fit the Toulouse style. This adaptation is also evident off the field. Willis now speaks French, is corrected by Pierre-Louis Barassi when he mispronounces words, tends a garden, and claims a genuine obsession with his lawn. With his family, he has mainly bought and renovated a nearly abandoned house, preserving typical bricks of the Pink City. Toulouse is no longer just the club that welcomed him after the fall of Wasps. It has become his home. Willis, 14 caps with England, is no longer eligible for selection since he chose to extend his adventure in France. The RFU does not select players playing abroad, except under exception. His last match with the England team dates back to the 2023 World Cup. "I always want to play for England," he admitted Monday night. But he adds that he knew the sacrifice involved in staying in Toulouse and does not regret his decision. And this choice has now taken on an even more personal dimension for the Toulouse serial scorer. In Homecoming, Willis explains that he is approaching four years of life in France and is seriously considering applying for French nationality when he meets the conditions. Common law generally requires five years of residence in France before applying for naturalization. He mentions this possible citizenship as "a great honor" and a way to permanently mark what France now represents for his family. Willis has not erased his desire to once again wear the English jersey. He has built something else in parallel. Since 2022, he has accumulated titles, learned to play differently, participated in costume parties with his teammates, and even named a vodka-lime-peach mixture after the 2024 double: the "Champion's Drink." A perfectly useless detail on a statistics sheet, but quite revealing of his integration. Nearly 30 years old, Jack Willis occupies a rare place: having become one of the most appreciated players in the Top 14 without renouncing the national team he still misses. Toulouse offered him an exit after Wasps. Four seasons later, the Englishman now considers officially inscribing France more permanently in his history. Willis was crowned Top 14 best player for the 2025-2026 season during the Rugby Night, for the second consecutive season. The Toulouse flanker played 23 matches, 1,380 minutes and scored six tries in the league. The LNR also ranks him best scrummager of the season for the second year in a row. However, his 14 selections with England remain blocked since September 2023. The contrast is striking: one of the most decorated players in the French championship cannot be called up by Steve Borthwick. The RFU maintains its policy prohibiting the selection of players based abroad. Implemented in 2011, it is intended to help retain international players in the Premiership and provide the federation with greater access to its players. Willis, however, knows the "exceptional circumstances" clause. When Wasps were placed in administration in the autumn of 2022, he found himself without a club mid-season and joined Toulouse in November. The RFU then granted him an exemption so that a forced departure due to his employer's bankruptcy would not immediately close the door to the England team. This protection had a limit. In October 2023, the RFU indicated that the exceptional window granted to players affected by English club bankruptcies lasted for twelve months. Willis had meanwhile extended his contract with Toulouse. By choosing to stay beyond this transitional period rather than returning to England, his case was no longer covered by the exception. He therefore became ineligible again. The parallel with Steffon Armitage will speak to Top 14 regulars. Elected best European player in 2014 with Toulon, the flanker was also excluded from the England team due to this policy. Twelve years later, Willis experiences the same kind of sporting exile, despite two consecutive French championship best player trophies. For Toulouse, the rule has a very concrete advantage. Willis remains available during the Six Nations tournament, a period when the Stadium regularly loses several French internationals. At 29 years old, and before turning 30 on December 24, he has become a key player in the red and black pack. He is contracted with Toulouse until 2029. Unless the policy changes, a third individual French trophy would not change his situation. To play again with England, Willis will have to return to an English club or see the RFU soften its rule on expatriate players.