Bad experiences from his playing days have shaped England head coach’s approach ahead of his first Six Nations
Steve Borthwick had a reputation for being an unforgiving coach but now insists he ‘cares deeply about my players’.Steve Borthwick had a reputation for being an unforgiving coach but now insists he ‘cares deeply about my players’.areers day at Hutton Grammar School in 1995 and the kids are writing down the jobs they want when they leave. “I wrote: ‘I want to be a professional rugby player and I want to play for England’,” recalls.
In 2000, Borthwick made it. Clive Woodward called him up for England’s summer tour of South Africa. Borthwick was 20, skinny for a lock, and only had 18 months of club rugby for Bath behind him, but all the talk was about how hard he worked at his game and that he was a good prospect. He made his debut a year later, against France in the. England did not lose many in those days and all the first seven Tests he played in were won.
Borthwick got another chance to make his mark when his old teammate Martin Johnson took over as head coach and, But it was a rickety team, and they were rough years for England. They lost 11 Tests in 20, some horrors among them. Borthwick always said he never read the press, but his friends and family did and the criticism got to him. Especially when his team were described as “brainless” after a. Borthwick has a Masters degree and did not appreciate the label.
In 2010, Borthwick’s knee went. Lewis Moody took over and led the team to a one-all draw in Australia that summer. And that was it. Courtney Lawes was coming through, and Johnson didn’t just take the captaincy away from Borthwick, he. Borthwick was on honeymoon when the news came through. Even Johnson knew it was wrong. “I always believe people should get what they deserve,” he said later, “but in Steve’s case, he didn’t.
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