Antenna off beam: Ben Youngs kicks for position
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ENGLAND’S World Cup chances may not have crashed and burned as a result of last weekend’s defeat in Cardiff, but they are damaged.
It was not so much that England lost, as to the nature of the 21-13 defeat – and what it told us about the fault lines still present in the “leadership group” headed by captain Owen Farrell –which includes his scrum-half partner Ben Youngs – and also the coaching team led by Eddie Jones.
The idea that Jones has got a world champion o...
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