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2025 Guinness Six Nations
[2023 Six Nations] England Squad
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<blockquote data-quote="BPM" data-source="post: 1122269" data-attributes="member: 59968"><p>In what way? Borthwick would surely have known that Smith would be out to prove a point - it's more or less what he was challenging him to do …</p><p></p><p>There was little doubt that Smith and the other discarded Quins players would play well. Mostly, because they usually do … there's a lazy assumption that they're all mercurial but inconsistent but that's simply not true. Secondly, we usually turn up for The Big Game, so yesterday shouldn't have been a massive surprise.</p><p></p><p>Whether that changes things for Smith from a selection POV is a different question, but I assume Borthwick's plan was to fire him up so in that sense, job done …</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BPM, post: 1122269, member: 59968"] In what way? Borthwick would surely have known that Smith would be out to prove a point - it's more or less what he was challenging him to do … There was little doubt that Smith and the other discarded Quins players would play well. Mostly, because they usually do … there’s a lazy assumption that they’re all mercurial but inconsistent but that’s simply not true. Secondly, we usually turn up for The Big Game, so yesterday shouldn’t have been a massive surprise. Whether that changes things for Smith from a selection POV is a different question, but I assume Borthwick’s plan was to fire him up so in that sense, job done … [/QUOTE]
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