If England's jersey was weighing heavy against Scotland, it was wafer thing against Ireland in their statement victory, writes Matt Dawson.
It was statement for everyone within the camp, a statement to the doubters, a statement to the rugby world and a statement to the supporters.
That is all well and good but you could build a tunnel from the motorway to the stadium where the fans don't see the players until the warm-up, and they will still be seen as superstars and heralded as legends if England are going to play like that. I think head coach Steve Borthwick has just realised the data driven analysis of getting yourself in the right position by defence and kicking the ball is all well and good, but you still have to have the attack and score tries.
Your fundamentals are the set-piece, line-out and scrum and England blew Ireland away with the selection of Chessum on the flank and Martin and Maro Itoje in the second row - Ireland had nowhere to go.That was vintage Steve Borthwick going back to his super strength of line-out knowledge. They could kick to touch at will knowing they would have a 30-40% chance of disrupting Ireland's ball.
He was so much more effective at nine than Conor Murray and is electric around the fringes. Ireland lost all of that speed and momentum.
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