Steve Borthwick wants answers from his England players as to why they fell apart against Scotland, and he will conduct a grisly postmortem this week with Maro Itoje blaming the capitulation on switching to “tip-tap rugby” and playing “hot potato” at Murrayfield.
England will hold a “thorough and honest” review when they reconvene in York on Wednesday and Borthwick admitted he could not understand why his players let slip a 10-0 lead to succumb to a fourth successive Calcutta Cup defeat. George Furbank’s opening try gave England the perfect start but a litany of errors followed and they turned the ball over 22 times across the match.
