Northampton Head Coach Vesty Questions England's Identity Under Borthwick

Northampton caput coach Sam Vesty has questioned whether England person mislaid their personality nether Steve Borthwick.

The RFU are presently holding a reappraisal into nan team's under-performance successful nan Six Nations successful which England mislaid 4 games for nan first clip successful nan title since 1976.

Under scrutiny will beryllium not only England's results but nan style of play which has been criticised arsenic being overly kick-heavy and conservative.

Borthwick, who has spoken of his desire to create England's crippled from nan basal attack which took England to nan World Cup semi-final successful 2023, has referred to nan weight of nan jersey proving restrictive.

However Vesty, who coaches England half-backs Alex Mitchell and Fin Smith arsenic good arsenic Tommy Freeman, Henry Pollock, Alex Coles and Fraser Dingwall astatine Northampton, thinks this is simply a reddish herring.

"It is nan aforesaid pinch each of nan different countries arsenic well. They each person a weight of expectation," Vesty told BBC Radio Northampton's The Saints Show.

"Scotland move nan ball. Italy move nan ball… each those teams that we person conscionable mentioned - if I asked you what their personality was, you could beautiful intelligibly opportunity something, couldn't you? I'm not judge you tin opportunity that pinch England astatine nan moment."