Jamie George had one blunt word for the way his team defended against Australia: “unforgivable”. England conceded five tries and 42 points, a record number in a home match against Australia, and the most in any Test against them in almost 20 years.
It meant that in the end England lost a game they should have won. Again. “There’s going to be some clips that are hard to watch back,” George admitted, “because we needed to be more physical, and make more tackles.
