By Jeremy Guscott - Outspoken & unmissable every week...

If you put the England backs behind the French pack would they be as good as the French backs? The first thing is they would be very pleased with the prospect!
It’s a good question, and a hard one to answer. The English backs would get much quicker ball, and it would then be about them making good decisions, and keeping their depth.
The speed of ball from the French forwards was phenomenal against Ireland, and the English backs would love to be on the front foot in the way that Louis Bielle-Biarrey and Damian Penaud were against ...