I WATCHED the postmatch interviews with Steve Borthwick and Ellis Genge after last week’s defeat to France and I have a great deal of sympathy for both players and staff. They have been given a poison chalice.
You can’t build a team without cohesion. There is a reason why successful national sides are built round players from a particular club – Saracens, Leinster etc – and it’s because of the level of cohesion that already exists.
We can all identify good players that Eddie Jones dismissed after just one poor performance.
He chopped and changed pl...