Stephen Jones wishes England would go away and play behind closed doors till they sort themselves out. Read his thoughts in his latest Rolling Maul in The Times.
"It feels right this week to start a column, appearing just days before the Six Nations, with an item on England. But I am struggling for words. It is not that I am written-out, very far from it. Having an opinion on everything is not a talent I have successfully hidden.
"It’s partly because I am at a loss to know what on earth to add about them or to know what they are driving at. That does not necessarily mean they are wrong. Maybe it is me. But I don’t see the team’s philosophy, don’t agree with their choice of captain or with what they say in public, don’t agree with nine of the starting team they have announced, don’t think they have the right coaching group and don’t know why they’ve de-powered their own pack. They may be right. They may be hiding it all just to burst out gloriously into the tournament. But they have lost me."
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