What is going wrong for England?
The Telegraph Rugby Podcast
The Telegraph
4.5 • 679 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Ben, Charlie and Charles reflect on the penultimate round of Six Nations action where England suffered a record home defeat to France in a major reality check for head coach Steve Borthwick.
We discuss England's problem areas following a difficult afternoon at Twickenham and who should play at fly-half against Ireland next weekend. Owen Farrell was forced to settle for a spot on the bench against France with Marcus Smith preferred while there's also the possibility of a return for George Ford, who is yet to make an appearance this campaign.
The Irish Grand Slam remains on after they picked up their latest win away to Scotland. Despite a string of injuries to their pack in the first half, Andy Farrell's men overcame adversity to deliver what he called 'the best win of his career'. We discuss Ireland's relentless form and what chance, if any, England have against them this coming weekend.
Plus, Wales are praised for picking up a bonus-point win away in Italy and we answer your questions too!
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello everybody. Welcome back to the latest episode of the Telegraph Rugby Podcasts. |
| 0:19.0 | What a weekend, especially at Twickenham, where |
| 0:22.0 | I think the best way to describe it was a bit of a massacre. I'm Ben Coles and I'm joined in the |
| 0:27.8 | studio by Charlie Morgan. Hi Charlie. Hello Colsey. I'm joined virtually by Charles Richardson. |
| 0:33.2 | Hello, Charles. Hello, everybody. Charles, you were up in Edinburgh, I believe. |
| 0:39.8 | How was your trip up there? Is that fun? |
| 0:42.9 | Yeah, it was glorious. The weather was delightful on Saturday, |
| 0:45.9 | and it wasn't too bad on Sunday, despite the very ropey forecast. |
| 0:50.5 | And we had a cracker of a game yesterday, Scotland, obviously, |
| 0:53.4 | which will come on to. Scotland |
| 0:54.7 | obviously excellent in the first half, but then Ireland inevitably gripped them in their |
| 1:00.5 | vice in the second half and were comfortable winners in the end. Ireland, despite playing with |
| 1:05.2 | seemingly every member of their pack getting injured inside the first half, which was quite impressive. |
| 1:09.3 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:14.2 | I mean, who knew Josh van der Fleer could throw into a lineout like that? |
| 1:18.3 | I think Scotland left them off the hook a little, let them off the hook a little bit, but it was still mightily impressive. |
| 1:20.0 | Was he Vanda flying them in at the lineout? |
| 1:23.0 | Is that where you? |
| 1:23.9 | Yeah, he was, yeah. |
| 1:24.8 | Okay, sorry, it's terrible um charlie we were at twickenham which was uh yeah i mean |
| 1:31.7 | good in some ways if you like rugby and then not so great if you like england was it a treat |
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