New year, same problems for England
The Telegraph Rugby Podcast
The Telegraph
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🗓️ 3 February 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Ben, Charlie and Charles reflect on the opening round of Six Nations where Ireland came from behind in Dublin to see off England in the standout fixture of the weekend
It was a familiar story for Steve Borthwick's side who produced an impressive opening half before fading in the second and ultimately surrendering their lead again.
We take a look at what worked, what didn't, and what can be done this weekend against France to give England a much needed win.
Speaking of France, they hammered Wales on the opening night thanks to another impressive display from Antoine Dupont, we take a close look at the threat they pose England. As for Wales, we ask if Warren Gatland's side stand any chance of picking up a single win in this years tournament.
Plus we take a look at Scotland's win over Italy, we hear from Brian Moore and Sir Ian McGeechan on their wildcard shouts for the Lions tour this summer and we tackle your questions as usual
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| 0:35.7 | very busy opening weekend of Six Nations |
| 0:38.2 | Action and we're going to try our best to dig into all of that over the next few minutes. |
| 0:42.8 | I'm Ben Coles. I'm joined by Charlie Morgan. Hi Charlie. Colesie. I'm going to give you my very |
| 0:46.4 | best. Oh, well I would expect nothing less but I'm now, I feel reassured, I feel comforted that |
| 0:51.1 | you're offering me that. And I'm also joined by Charles Richardson. What are you bringing to the table? Well, probably not my best, to be honest. Not your best? |
| 0:56.9 | No, probably not. We'll give it a go though. Great. Good. Let's start with what happened in Dublin. |
| 1:03.6 | Charlie, you were there. Obviously, we're going to dissect this, but I just want to get your just initial kind of summary of what you saw. I saw a, as we kind of forecast, a selection and a tactical plan that caused island |
| 1:15.5 | problems for 45 to 50 minutes outside of a kind of passage where, yeah, England obviously |
| 1:24.2 | were under massive pressure themselves, but defended really well with that back row that they went for and they didn't have a line-out platform really, which was another kind of predictable aspect of it. |
| 1:36.2 | And then they fell away and they just can't really fail to shake this idea that they're quite a flimsy team from a strategic point of view, |
| 1:45.0 | maybe a psychological point of view as well, and they're just falling away in those second |
| 1:48.9 | halves as they continue to do, albeit against the very best teams, an island, |
| 1:52.9 | Ireland's class really told, not just as a side necessarily, and they kept faith in that |
| 1:59.2 | tactical template and how they keep the ball and |
| 2:01.7 | stress teams like that but also just the depth of their 23 with Dan Sheen, Jack Conan, Jack Crowley, |
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