George Ford's ineffective display in Dublin and a lack of faith in Marcus Smith leave Steve Borthwick's Rugby World Cup plans in disarray
against Argentina and Japan, when defeat in both could cost England their progress, and while the drawn-out confirmation of the suspension will need a review of its own, for Borthwick and England’s beleaguered followers the entirely more pressing question is how to clean up the mess Farrell has left.
There was a brief flurry of positive activity when Farrell and Ford joined forces in the fateful Twickenham warm-up but that now sits in a folder marked “back burner” while Ford, almost certainly, or Marcus Smith, much less probably, must take England’s World Cup reins. Now, at this point, it is possible to charge the World Cup glass half full, and to see the choice of Ford or Smith in the No 10 jersey as potentially unleashing a more fluent, effective attacking game than Farrell is associated with.of Saracens’ Premiership winning team, while Ford at No 10 for England in Ireland last Saturday employed a strangulated strategy of kicking at almost every turn that did not begin to bear fruit.
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