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Nick Cain: England’s direction of travel still unclear

Nick Cain believes England’s summer ended with encouraging signs, but says Steve Borthwick still has major questions to answer over discipline, squad depth and whether his side are on course to challenge for major honours.
Marcus Smith dives in to score for England against Argentina last weekend

A narrow win over Argentina on their own turf is not to be sniffed at, but the idea that last Saturday’s 31-24 result in Santiago del Estero has put England into orbit as prototype world champions is a galaxy too far.

Any assessment of England’s performance in the first three rounds of the inaugural Nations Championship has to address the likelihood of them winning it.
Because, whisper it quietly, lest head coach Steve Borthwick climbs onto his “negativity committee“ high horse, as an international side that is what they are here to do.
At the moment, sitting in third place in the northern he...

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