Steve Borthwick’s England have been told to get their skates on, and avoid getting stuck in the blocks again as the race to next year’s World Cup gets underway.
Borthwick’s side have failed to start quickly in recent tournaments only to finish them like a train and wonder what might have been.
In the Six Nations, after beating woeful Wales, they had a shocker losing three times before a face-saving narrow defeat, 48-46, away to France where they ran in seven tries.
And in the recent Nations Championship they were as good as done after 20 minutes against South Africa, eventually losing 45-21...

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