KYRAN BRACKEN

NO MATTER what Steve Borthwick does he’s just getting lynched by the public. There’s a certain pool of people who think Marcus Smith should be at 10, you’ve then got other people who are criticising that he’s named the squad early and then there was massive criticism becasue they didn’t celebrate the players enough when announcing the squad like South Africa or New Zealand.
The whole pre-World Cup experience, never mind poor displays, has been really negative. Things aren’t good on the field, they’re tumbling down in their entertainment value and the public can’t work out wha...