Borthwick must stop delaying and rebuild

NICK CAIN
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WHEN Steve Borthwick took over from Eddie Jones as England head coach he said that he had inherited a team that “wasn’t good at anything”. We are more than a year on, and nothing has changed.
That reality was rammed home in England’s pivotal game of the Six Nations in Edinburgh last weekend when they were outplayed in the second-half to lose 30-21 to a Scotland side which had made their own fair share of mistakes before half-time.
However, the Scottish glitches were nothing compared with the deluge of errors made by Borthwick’s crew over the c...

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