Steve Borthwick has proven during his career that he is a great coach and he is starting to show that he is a good selector of coaches too – Richard Wigglesworth, Felix Jones, and now Joe El Abd have made real improvements in England’s game – the one area that he needs to improve is in player selection.
Although it could be argued that he picked the right players for the gameplan that he used at the last World Cup, given those that were available, it is not clear that he is currently a good long-term selector of talent.
The one exception to this is Immanuel Feyi-Waboso, an inarguable succes...