When it comes to Le Crunch, England don’t seem to know what their best XV is | Ugo Monye The world’s greatest teams know who plays when everyone is fit and horses-for-courses selection won’t help Steve Borthwick.
This England team should always be competitive because we have a lot of depth, but I don’t know what the clarity is in terms of what their best team is and we’ve had a lot of games to at least answer that question.
They can tweak things but the foundation is there and I’m not sure England have that yet but the best teams in any sport know what their best side is when everyone is fit.
In Dublin last weekend, Borthwick picked both Currys in the back row and as effective as it was for the first 50 minutes, as much as it was on task, the way that we out-enthused the opposition, displayed more energy, it was a selection based on negating what the opposition was going to do.
I don’t really buy the excuse that England were lacking experience because last weekend was Simon Easterby’s first match in charge of Ireland and his proactive changes swung the game in his side’s favour.
