No Guarantee Over Borthwick Future As Rfu Review Continues

In opposition to his stance connected Borthwick, Sweeney was unequivocal successful his backing of nan talent astatine nan caput coach's disposal, saying nan RFU had "absolute confidence" successful nan players.

"We still deliberation this is an highly beardown squad, and we still deliberation that it's sewage nan imaginable and capabilities to do immoderate typical things," he said.

The reappraisal into is carried retired by an anonymous sheet of figures from wrong and extracurricular rugby and involves interviews pinch players and coaches.

Jones has antecedently described it arsenic "a tough, reliable process", saying that RFU head of capacity rugby Conor O'Shea, erstwhile British and Irish Lions coach Ian McGeechan and "a mates of [RFU] committee members" assessed his capacity and set-up while successful complaint of England.

Sweeney said nan anonymity of nan existent sheet was cardinal to ensuring they could present their judgement arsenic frankly arsenic possible.

"There's a batch of noise, and immoderate of it you hear, and you conscionable cognize it's inaccurate from nan facts, and immoderate of it you hear, and you say, 'Yeah, OK, that's 1 of nan topics that we're discussing successful nan review'," Sweeney said.

"But you've sewage to return emotion retired of nan equation wholly and conscionable look astatine it purely successful position of, what was nan performance, what were nan issues, why did they arise, and really do we hole it?"

He besides believes that conversations astir Borthwick's qualities arsenic a coach are swayed by results connected nan field, pinch nan aforesaid characteristics which were seen arsenic cardinal to a 12-match year-long winning run, now formed successful a different ray by nan dip which has followed instantly after.

"Steve's calm, he's considered, he's analytical, and that's his persona. That's his personality," said Sweeney.

"I tin deliberation of immoderate of nan sum astir him anterior to nan Six Nations being highly affirmative astir that broadside of his nature, truthful it gets coloured a batch by what really happens connected nan results page."