Chris Robshaw: Before Eddie Jones England were always nearly-guys

Former captain, who insists he is happy to play at openside or blindside flanker, reveals his Six Nations ambitions for England by saying: ‘Grand slams are special’It did not take Eddie Jones long after he took charge of England at the end of 2015 to appreciate that his assessment of Chris Robshaw during that year’s World Cup as a forward who did not have a point of difference, was a club rather than an international player and not an openside flanker, was unfair.Jones dropped Robshaw as captain but picked him in his first team, at blindside flanker, and has come to increasingly rely on a play…

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