Steve Borthwick

Why England need to be the fittest team in France

JEREMY GUSCOTT
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Every coach is going to say there is room for improvement and, just as Steve Borthwick has done recently with England, one of the areas they are most likely to target is fitness.
It is not unusual as a strategy, because fitness is really an honour badge for players, and it helps to bring a squad together when everyone reaches for a common goal.
It is fair to say that at international level you expect players to have very high standards of fitness, but that does not mean that they will all be very fit in exactly the same way. If you t...

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