{"id":3130,"date":"2022-03-19T06:27:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T06:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worabia.com\/news\/top-trends\/3130\/"},"modified":"2022-03-19T06:27:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T06:27:10","slug":"high-definition-france-bring-england-struggles-into-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worabia.com\/news\/top-trends\/3130\/","title":{"rendered":"High-definition France bring England struggles into focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div >\n<table >\n<thead >\n<tr >\n<th ><span data-react>Guinness Six Nations: France v England<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody >\n<tr >\n<td ><strong data-react>Campus: <\/strong><span data-react>Stade de France, Paris <\/span><strong data-react>Date:<\/strong><span data-react>    Saturday, March 19 <\/span><strong data-react>Kick off:<\/strong><span data-react>    20:00 GMT<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr >\n<td ><strong data-react>Coverage: <\/strong><span data-react>Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds;  text commentary and match summaries on the BBC Sport website and mobile app.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p  ><span data-react>The final weekend of the Six Nations is a second-screen experience.  However, unplug the phone and turn on the calculator because the math, as usual, could get messy.<\/span><\/p>\n<div data-react>\n<p ><span data-react>France&#8217;s victory gives them the title.<\/span><\/p>\n<div >\n<div  >\n<div ><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p ><span data-react>A win for Ireland earlier in the day brings draws and bonus points into the French equation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p ><span data-react>The points difference may yet be Ireland&#8217;s trump card.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul data-react>\n<li ><span data-react>Six Nations final round permutations <\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span data-react>France v England &#8211; team preview, stats and news<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span data-react>Four ways England can crash France&#8217;s Grand Slam party<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p ><span data-react>However, England fans will be asking different questions: calculations with less obvious answers and longer-term implications.<\/span><\/p>\n<p ><span data-react>Would staying within a score of this posh France team be a moral victory?<\/span><\/p>\n<p ><span data-react>Is a winning percentage of just over 50% in the last three Six Nations campaigns enough?<\/span><\/p>\n<p ><span data-react>How many more beatings can England take before faith in head coach Eddie Jones is dented beyond repair?<\/span><\/p>\n<p ><span data-react>Jones can hear the rumble on the horizon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p ><span data-react>&#8220;Publish the game, you can have those kinds of discussions,&#8221; he told BBC Radio 5 Live on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p ><span data-react>&#8220;We feel like we&#8217;re making good progress as a team. We&#8217;d rather be playing for the title, but we&#8217;re not, but we feel like the team is making good progress.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p ><span data-react>It can only be &#8220;feeling&#8221;.  The numbers are not there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p ><span data-react>England could finish Sunday night with a second consecutive fifth-place finish for the first time in Six Nations history. <\/span><\/p>\n<p ><span data-react>They would need to score five tries against France to match even last year&#8217;s meager total of 12.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p ><span data-react>There have been glimpses of what could be.  England have hinted at their baseline brilliance and coal spirit over the past year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p ><span data-react>when freddie steward <\/span><span data-react>carved on the line against Australia in the fall<\/span><span data-react>we saw how the attack could work. <\/span><\/p>\n<p ><span data-react>When the bloodthirsty mind of 14 men made up the numbers against Ireland last week, talk of a new level of team unity rang true.<\/span><\/p>\n<p ><span data-react>But the moments are for showreels.  Tournaments reveal teams.  The Six Nations is an exhaustive examination that takes teams into enemy territory and dark places.  And once again, England returns home among the stragglers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p ><span data-react>Jones has his defense.  He is an expert in preparing teams to peak at the Rugby World Cups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p ><span data-react>England finished fifth in the 2018 Six Nations, the equivalent tournament in the last cycle, before reaching the final in Yokohama 18 months later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p ><span data-react>A plan more than a year in the making came to fruition when he <\/span><span data-react>planned Japan&#8217;s victory over the Springboks in 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p ><span data-react>He was part of the coaching staff that guided South Africa to the trophy in 2007. An unattractive Australia pushed England deep into the 2003 final in their first appearance at the tournament.<\/span><\/p>\n<p ><span data-react>France 2023 rarely escapes Jones.  Even this week, he mentioned it.  England&#8217;s arrival in Paris on Tuesday was apparently to give them a taste of the host nation ahead of the 2023 tournament.<\/span><\/p>\n<table >\n<thead >\n<tr >\n<th ><span data-react>The Six Nations of England<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody >\n<tr >\n<td ><span data-react>saturday 5 february<\/span><\/td>\n<td ><span data-react>Lost 20-17 to Scotland (A)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr >\n<td ><span data-react>sunday 13 february<\/span><\/td>\n<td ><span data-react>Beat Italy 33-0 (A)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr >\n<td ><span data-react>saturday 26 february<\/span><\/td>\n<td ><span data-react>Win Wales 23-19 (H)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr >\n<td ><span data-react>saturday march 12<\/span><\/td>\n<td ><span data-react>Lost 32-15 to Ireland (H)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr >\n<td ><span data-react>saturday march 19<\/span><\/td>\n<td ><span data-react>France (A)<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p ><span data-react>There are also extenuating circumstances.  The initial plan to put Owen Farrell in the center as a stabilizing hand and second set of eyes for rookie fly half Marcus Smith was thwarted by injury. <\/span><\/p>\n<p ><span data-react>The striking power of Manu Tuilagi, a midfield option so easy to play and so difficult to defend, was similarly lost.<\/span><\/p>\n<p ><span data-react>But still, the doubts run deep.  The suggestion is that Jones has failed in a succession plan, that the transition between two eras has been too clumsy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p ><span data-react>With a playing pool of Premiership depth at their disposal, should only four of the 10 starting flankers during the tournament have been specialists at the position?  Steward is the latest to switch after Joe Marchant, Max Malins and Tuilagi have all tried in the last 12 months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p ><span data-react>Mark Atkinson, Ollie Lawrence and Paolo Odogwu have come to the camp offering something that the current centers do not offer.  They&#8217;ve all left again without a long run on the team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p ><span data-react>There is no clear preferred option at number eight, scrum-half or hooker. <\/span><\/p>\n<p ><span data-react>The team selected to face France has come from left field.  George Furbank is coming from the wild to start at full-back, a role he hasn&#8217;t played since October 2020. Will the apparent screeching u-turn back to a heavy-kicking strategy be for one night only?  Or a more permanent reversal?<\/span><\/p>\n<p ><span data-react>The contrast is marked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p ><span data-react>There is no fog around France.  They come at you in high definition.  Relentless forward drives, rapier drives wide, tight defense and a set of proven replacements ready to slot in on the touchline.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p ><span data-react>A golden generation<\/span><span data-react>    who won the U20 World Championship in 2018 and 2019, have generated a feel-good factor.  TV ratings are up, confidence is high, the plan is clear;  take the Grand Slam this year, win the World Cup next.<\/span><\/p>\n<p ><span data-react>England&#8217;s goals are more modest.  Trophies are off the menu for now.  In form, matching France for most of the game, in most areas, would be a decent return. <\/span><\/p>\n<p ><span data-react>Sacking the Stade de France, negating the odds, potentially throwing the title to Ireland, would be one of the great victories of Jones&#8217;s spell in charge.  A result to sit alongside the All Blacks&#8217; semi-final victory in 2019. An emphatic response to critics and skeptics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p ><span data-react>Anything else and the questions only get more insistent.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul data-react>\n<li ><span data-react>Become Batman: <\/span><span data-react>Robert Pattinson Reveals All About Taking On The Role Of The Caped Crusader<\/span><\/li>\n<li ><span data-react>MOTDx: <\/span><span data-react>Philippe Coutinho and Dublin&#8217;s fan-owned Bohemian FC appear in this week&#8217;s episode<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-union\/60802201?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guinness Six Nations: France v England Campus: Stade de France, Paris Date: Saturday, March 19 Kick off: 20:00 GMT Coverage: Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds; text commentary and match summaries on the BBC Sport website and mobile app. The final weekend of the Six Nations is a second-screen experience. 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