{"id":20046,"date":"2022-12-19T12:28:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T12:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/12\/19\/steve-borthwick-england-appoint-leicester-coach-to-replace-eddie-jones\/"},"modified":"2022-12-19T12:28:25","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T12:28:25","slug":"steve-borthwick-england-appoint-leicester-coach-to-replace-eddie-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=20046","title":{"rendered":"Steve Borthwick: England appoint Leicester coach to replace Eddie Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ad_1]
\n<\/p>\n

\n
\"Steve<\/span><\/span>
Steve Borthwick was England forwards coach under Eddie Jones from 2015 to 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

England have appointed Leicester’s Steve Borthwick as new head coach of the men’s national team, nine months before the World Cup begins in France.<\/span><\/p>\n

\n

The 43-year-old is joined by defence coach Kevin Sinfield, who he has worked with at Leicester since 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Borthwick has been favourite to take the role since <\/span>Eddie Jones was sacked<\/span><\/a> and joins on a five-year contract.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I want the whole country to be proud of us and to enjoy watching us play,” said Borthwick.<\/span><\/p>\n

The former England captain’s first match in charge will be the Six Nations opener against Scotland on 4 February and the Rugby Football Union said the rest of his coaching team would be announced “in the coming weeks”.<\/span><\/p>\n

Borthwick and England will return to Twickenham for that match trying to regain the confidence of fans, with some booing after a 27-13 defeat by South Africa in November.<\/span><\/p>\n

At Leicester, Richard Wigglesworth will end his playing career to step in as the club’s interim head coach.<\/span><\/p>\n

When Borthwick took over at Leicester in 2020, the club were struggling at the bottom of the Premiership, but he improved their fortunes to lead them to their <\/span>first top-flight title in nine years<\/span><\/a> last season.<\/span><\/p>\n

Having worked as Jones’ assistant with Japan and then England, he was expected to take the reins after the 2023 World Cup – but that date was brought forward after the side’s poor run of form, as they won five of 12 Tests in 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n

Borthwick’s contract will run until the end of 2027 – taking England through two World Cups.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I’m deeply honoured to be appointed England head coach, and I am very excited by the challenge,” Borthwick said. <\/span><\/p>\n

“The English game is full of talent and I want to build a winning team which makes the most of our huge potential and inspires young people to fall in love with rugby union the way I did.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The hard work starts now and planning for the Guinness Six Nations and Rugby World Cup begins today. I will give it everything.” <\/span><\/p>\n

Borthwick was part of the coaching team on the British and Irish Lions’ tour of New Zealand in 2017, which resulted in a drawn Test series.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a player, he was a lock for Saracens and Bath, earning 57 England caps before retiring in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rugby league great Sinfield joined Borthwick at Leicester as defence coach before the start of the 2021-22 season.<\/span><\/p>\n

RFU chief executive Bill Sweeney described Borthwick as “our first-choice successor to Eddie”.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Steve and Kevin’s insight and first-hand knowledge of the players will be a great asset and everyone at the RFU is right behind them with our full support,” Sweeney continued.<\/span><\/p>\n

Off the pitch, Sinfield has raised more than \u00a37m for charity in support of ex-Leeds team-mate Rob Burrow, who has Motor Neurone Disease.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It is a special moment to join England as a coach,” Sinfield said.<\/span><\/p>\n

“There is so much player talent in England and I am really looking forward to working with the wider squad of players to see what we can achieve together, especially with such a massive year ahead of us. “<\/span><\/p>\n

‘Borthwick has no time to waste’ – analysis<\/h3>\n

BBC rugby union correspondent Chris Jones<\/em><\/p>\n

Borthwick’s appointment has been accelerated by Eddie Jones’ sacking, and rather than going to the Rugby World Cup as a shadow member of the coaching team – as had been the plan – he will now be the main man in France. <\/span><\/p>\n

He has no time to waste. As well as finalising the make-up of his coaching team, there are a matter of weeks before he will need to pick his Six Nations squad, and it would be no surprise if he leaned on a Leicester core which served him so well at Welford Road. <\/span><\/p>\n

Scotland will be a challenge in their Six Nations opener at Twickenham, as they have dominated the Calcutta Cup in recent years, but that match, followed by another home game against Italy, is a kind pair of fixtures to get the new regime up and running, and quell the unrest from the supporters that was so evident at the end of the autumn.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

[ad_2]
\n
Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[ad_1] Steve Borthwick was England forwards coach under Eddie Jones from 2015 to 2020 England have appointed Leicester’s Steve Borthwick as new head coach of the men’s national team, nine … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}