Ian Ritchie's straight talking is just what England's underachievers need
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Ian Ritchie's straight talking is just what England's underachievers need
A shot across the bows, the antidote to the dreaded vote of confidence.
The first is reassuring, the other worrying.
One speaks to the reality, the other masks the truth.
Ian Ritchie’s stark assessment of England’s perennial failure to win a Six Nations title – one in the last dozen years – is to be applauded.
It ought to be, too, by Stuart Lancaster.
And by his players.
They professed the self-same sentiment in the immediate aftermath of the madcap win against France at Twickenham on Saturday.
They were not whooping and hollering about the tumult of the action, the whizz and …
The first is reassuring, the other worrying.
One speaks to the reality, the other masks the truth.
Ian Ritchie’s stark assessment of England’s perennial failure to win a Six Nations title – one in the last dozen years – is to be applauded.
It ought to be, too, by Stuart Lancaster.
And by his players.
They professed the self-same sentiment in the immediate aftermath of the madcap win against France at Twickenham on Saturday.
They were not whooping and hollering about the tumult of the action, the whizz and …
