Steve Borthwick going back to the drawing board after England’s loss to Ireland

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Steve Borthwick is to conduct a thorough review of his team to prevent England’s Guinness Six Nations from unravelling further in the wake of a 42-21 mauling by Ireland at Allianz Stadium.England followed up their emphatic defeat by Scotland in Edinburgh with another dismal performance that removes them from title contention as early as the third round.

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00:06Steve, was that a bit of a reality check today?

00:09It was bitterly disappointing and a huge credit to Ireland

00:12in the way they played and they took their chances really, really well.

00:17I thought their kicking game was excellent today.

00:22This team has been very, very good for quite a long period of time now

00:27at games that are tight, even if we go a score or two down,

00:32then being very, very strong in that second half

00:34and always finding a way to win that second half.

00:37For two weeks now, we've given ourselves a mountain climb,

00:40we've given the opposition too many points early in the game

00:44and we've not got scoreboard presence.

00:47So we'll be looking closely at that and how I set the team up

00:51to make sure that doesn't happen again.

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