By Brendan Gallagher
Time to tip a hat in the direction of England coach Steve Borthwick who bit the bullet hard this week and made the biggest and best decisions of his life.
Sometimes it’s only in extremis that your thought processes work properly.
It might be stretching a point to suggest his job was on the line yesterday but Borthwick was definitely running out of time and England’s chances of winning this season’s Championship were disappearing down the pan yet again.
There was also an urgent need for England to show they could play for 80 minutes, not their habitual hour.
In my “Blea...
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