ENGLAND ARE not going to win the Rugby World Cup. That is my contender for State the Bleeding Obvious. It was obvious during the last year of the increasingly awful Eddie Jones tenure and it became even more obvious as his replacement, Steve Borthwick, and his information-obsessed processes, forgot about ‘feel’ in the quest for the ultimate game plan.
It’s been killing England for a long time. Not just the team but any players who could once have laid claim to being described as ‘world class’. How I hate that description. Two tries for Bristol in the local derby game against Bath and the scorer might easily be called that.
What is world class? It’s indefinable. It’s whatever you want it to be. If you’re a Bristol fan it might be your man scoring his brace. Here’s my definition. One of the best two or three players in your
