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Nick Cain: Selection skills key to delivering big prizes for Steve Borthwick’s England

Where does England’s 4-0 Autumn Series success over southern hemisphere opposition leave them? The answer is having to take the next step of delivering a Grand Slam in the 2026 Six Nations.
Max Ojomoh pounces to score England’s opener at Twickenham.

Where does England’s 4-0 Autumn Series success over southern hemisphere opposition leave them? The answer is having to take the next step of delivering a Grand Slam in the 2026 Six Nations.

The stumbling block is that a 5-0 clean sweep is an elusive beast where England are concerned, with just two achieved in the last 22 years.
England’s 2003 side secured a Slam to set themselves up for their World Cup triumph, and then, a decade ago, Dylan Hartley’s team claimed another as former head coach Eddie Jones launched his ultimately flawed bid for world dominance.
In the dog days in between those...

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