NICK CAIN
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There will have been times when the honeymoon period predicted for Steve Borthwick’s first year as England coach after succeeding Eddie Jones must have felt more like the War of the Roses. The basis of the honeymoon concept was that the handover from Jones involved a team that was so broken – both as a credible top tier nation and in its sundered relationship with the supporters – that the only way was up.
That’s not how it turned out.
Borthwick’s message that he had inherited a team “which weren’t good at anything” turned into a self-fulfilli...