England Vs Chile: Steve’s England 100% focused on Six Nations
as Rugby World Cup looms
While there may be a Rugby World Cup just around the corner, Steve Borthwick told Mirror Sport his focus is 100 percent on being ready for the Six Nations as his England tenure gets underway. The pressure is on for England as Steve Borthwick begins his tenure just nine months out from the 2023 Rugby World Cup, but he and his squad aren't looking beyond the upcoming Six Nations.
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Expectations remain high for the Red Rose despite winning just five of their 13 games in 2022, having finished as runners-up to South Africa in the last World Cup final four years ago. And while there's an inevitable hunger to go one better in France later this year, Borthwick and his men aren't looking past their Six Nations opener on February 4.
I think it is 100 percent about being ready to play against Scotland, the new England chief told Mirror Sport at the Guinness Six Nations launch when asked how his focus is divided between winning games now and preparing for the World Cup later down the line. And I think that's the right thing because I think the players deserve it. Players deserve the opportunity to be best prepared for that game. I think our supporters expect that. When you watch a game, you're wanting to see the team go play their hearts out and not think about something in the future, what might be or what might not be.
Eddie Jones' departure from the England team in December was largely attributed to his obsession with World Cup preparation. The Australian who has since been restored as Wallabies head coach insisted
England was 'on the right track' to compete for the crown in France, but a lack of results in the present prevented him from testing that theory.
When the players pull that shirt on and go out and play, that's all I ask them to do, continued the incumbent. We're gonna have a plan, yes, and then they'll have to adapt the plan within the context of the games. Just play your heart out and do the very best you can. That's all I ask of you. The exBath and Saracens lock met up with his England squad for the first time on Monday ahead of a five-day training camp at Pennyhill Park. With barely a week to go before they open the Six Nations at home to Scotland, it leaves little time for the new staff including defense coach Kevin Sinfield and attack coach Nick Evans to impress their blueprint.
England is coming off the back of two disappointing Six Nations championships, having accrued just four wins from their last possible 10 in the tournament. Former 57-cap lock Borthwick added he 'regrets a lot of things' from his playing career and is adamant his players don't hang up their boots with the same sense of sorrow. Would I like to rewind the clock and go back and try and do it again? Yeah, I would clarify the coach, who led Leicester Tigers to a Premiership title in just his season as a head coach. I can’t unfortunately because I’m old and can’t do it, as Owen keeps reminding me.
I want to help these young guys not make the mistakes I made. When they’re old and have no hair like me, I want them to not have regrets. I don’t want them looking back thinking I wish I’d done that, or I could have done that. I want them to have a real go. Getting underway on February 4, round 1 of GUINNESS SIX NATIONS 2023 will see Wales host Ireland in the first head-to-head of the series before England host their Scottish rivals in a battle for the Calcutta Cup.
England Vs Chile: Doncaster flanker Martin Sigren Chile Rugby team remarkable qualification years Rugby World Cup
In the dark depths of a Yorkshire winter, Martin Sigren is putting in the groundwork for his days in the sun at the Rugby World Cup, as a pioneer for Chile with his historic achievements and choice of body art.
By the time the Doncaster flanker, 26, leads the evolving South American nation into battle against the England Rugby team in Lille in September, he expects that all his teammates will arrogantly wear an ink symbol of their success. After Los Condores of Chile surprised the USA in Glendale, Colorado, last summer to qualify for the Rugby World Cup for the first time, their skipper knew how he would mark the event. Worldwide Tickets and Hospitality offers Rugby World Cup tickets for the France Rugby World Cup 2023 at the best prices. Rugby fans can buy England Rugby World Cup Tickets at exclusively discounted prices.
The tattoo and badge game, he tells Sportsmail. It was my party. The condor is our national bird, it's the largest bird in the Andes region. It has a huge wingspread, of three meters, and it flies up to 4,000 meters, in the foothills. It's our team's name, so it means all about this change I have made for myself, to be in this place. Some of the boys have had it too. I hope they all get it.
Chile's Condors are truly rising. Turning the oval-ball balance of power in the Americas upside-down cannot be overblown. Just three years after the first step towards small-scale expertise with the advancement of a high-performance center, Pablo Lemoine's faithful band of brothers had beaten World Cup stalwarts Canada and the USA to earn their place at the Rugby World Cup tournament in France. In rugby's corridors of power, there is a desperate need to unlock a possibly lucrative market in the States, but Sigren felt Chile simply had more passion than their northern counterparts as they clawed back a 190 second-leg shortfall to win 52-51 on aggregate.
We thought it was our main weapon over the US having this huge purpose, he speaks. We worked on knowledge, why are we doing this? Who am I being? It was the same for the games against Canada and all the qualifying. We created this shared purpose and that is what got us where we are. In this game with so much tension, it was about who wanted it. What we showed was that we wanted it more than they did.
Other Uruguay prop Lemoine assembled a team who bought into an ambitious crusade and Sigren set the tone in giving body and soul to the cause, for very little personal gain originally. It took a huge expense to get where we are, he tells. It was tough. It was not until 2021 that we were getting reimbursed at all. We don't get paid even close to plenty to be able to live with. In 2019, and 2020 we did all on a fully amateur basis just our passion, training from 6.30 am to 8.30 am. When we were done, we all went to college or to work. We had to leave nice things aside families and girlfriends and social life.
When I grew up, I had so many chances, so I was leaving this laid-back life to focus on my rugby. People I know took the whole summer for holidays and all had fun, but I had this mission. This voice inside me was pushing me on. Luckily for me, my family supported me the whole way. The sign was with his four brothers and the entire family when he received the call which would change his life. Last season, the flanker had spoken to Doncaster, but the talks had not proceeded, as their priority was to find a lock. But in August, his agent got in touch to say the Championship club wanted to sign him, right now. There wasn't much time to mull it over.
Chile will strive for an honorable campaign this autumn in a high-class World Cup pool with England, Argentina, Japan, and Samoa. It is not about the results says Sign. We can't measure ourselves on the scoreboard. We are in a tough group. Our victory is being there. He is right. In a sport still lacking international variety, the rise of Chile's Condors is a glorious beacon of vital expansion in a new frontier.
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