>> PAUL REES SAYS BORTHWICK’S MEN ARE GOOD ENOUGH TO TAKE ON THE NEW ZEALAND CHALLENGE AND COME OUT ON TOP

WHAT must Steve Borthwick make of this season’s Premiership? As the England head coach prepares for next month’s Tests against New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and Japan, it is unlikely that he is contemplating a gameplan as devil-may-care as that of Bristol whose attack was described by Mark McCall last week as without compare.
“Their attack is superb,” said McCall, Saracens’ director of rugby, savouring a last-minute Alex Loz...