Post #1100718

Three days on from the Twickenham Massacre, I have some thoughts about England. Firstly, Borthwick must go. At the end of the Six Nations, we have to replace him. It isn't too soon; the Borthwick project has had three years to prove itself, and it just hasn't managed it. After our barnstormer of a year in 2025, in which we came a convincing second in the Six Nations and found convincing wins against New Zealand and Argentina, I could hear the music. I was gearing up to eat an entire concrete mixer full of humble pie over Borthwick. If we had won this Six Nations, if we had won next year's World Cup under his tenure, then I would have happily admitted that I was wrong and hailed Borthwick as a genius. But instead we've followed up one of our best years in recent times with one of our worst Six Nations performances ever. We conceded our biggest defeat to Ireland at Twickenham; we got rolled over by Scotland; a win against Italy in the next round is far from assured; and the less said about Le Crunch this year the better. Borthwick's management just isn't working. It cannot reasonably be said to be working when we're so wildly inconsistent, when we have absolutely fuck-all idea which England is going to show up from year to year, month to month, or week to week. We have to replace him, and the absolute latest we can do that is at the end of this tournament, otherwise the new guy isn't going to have enough time to fix things in time for the next World Cup. 1/n #SixNationsRugby