Head coach’s succession to Eddie Jones now looks like a hospital pass from the sport’s governing body as the World Cup looms
The whole point of a succession plan is that you are in control of the present and the future. The RFU has managed to organise its plan so that it has compromised both. Borthwick is a good man, and thorough, but watching his team hobble through these warm-ups it is hard not to have flashbacks to his days as England’s captain, which were characterised by a very earnest and effortful hangdog ineffectiveness.
The general effect is that they now come across like a cover band of the 2019 side that reached its peak when beating the: it’s the same faces, playing the same sort of power game, but it is all a bit dull, lumpish and unconvincing. Four years later, everyone else has long since moved on. Borthwick has been talking about taking inspiration from the 2007 tournament, when England were humiliated 36-0 by South Africa in the group stage and ended up making the final. Given that the senior players had to take over control from the coaches, it is not the most inspiring plan, but it is, apparently, the best hope they have.
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