Steve Borthwick's coaching team at the World Championships in France has taken shape. Photo: Alamy/Leicester Tigers
Telegraph Sport's Steve Borthwick can announce that he has completed the formation of his coaching team ahead of the World Cup in England, enlisting the services of Leicester Tigers scrum coach Tom Harrison and British Sevens coach Tony Roques, reports Telegraph Sport.
Harrison's assignment is filled. vacancy left by Montpellier's Richard Cockerill and completes the extraordinary transplantation of the entire coaching team that led the Tigers to the Premier League title last season into the national squad.
Roques, who worked with England at the time World Cup training camp ahead of the 2019 tournament in Japan, meanwhile he is set to join Borthwick's team to focus on contact skills and breakdowns.
The former England Sevens winger, who also coached the USA Sevens, will make the final appearance in the Great Britain squad expected to take place at the HSBC Sevens tournament in Twickenham later this month.
It is clear that the Rugby Union is trying to fulfill his other sevens obligations to allow him to take full part in the World Cup training camp in England in July and August.
England. they are believed to have interviewed a number of potential grappling coach candidates, some of whom have been hired to compete against test nations in the World Championships.
Ian Peel, Saracens' The respected striker coach, who excels at both scrum and lineout coaching, has been named England's top choice, but he declined an interview after committing his long-term future to Premier League leaders.
Harrison has been a key Leicester employee since 2020, when he took over after three years at the club's academy.
The Tigers' clash was the foundation of their success, with veteran curmudgeon Dan Cole earning an England recall for Borthwick's Six Nations first team. Borthwick is expected to oversee England's line-up.
In the meantime, the leadership of the English attack will be handed over to Richard Wigglesworth, the current acting director of rugby at Leicester, who is due to join the team. national installation as assistant coach at the end of the season.
Borthwick had originally hoped that Nick Evans, the Harlequins manager who led England's attack during the Six Nations campaign, would remain at the World Cup in France, but the Premier League club refused to release him.
Brought him Kevin. Sinfield traveled to England with him as defense coach, replacing Eddie Jones in December. Borthwick also enlisted the services of Aled Walters, Leicester's respected fitness coach, for the World Cup.
In addition, Felix Jones, who won the 2019 World Cup with South Africa alongside Walters, will be leaving Springboks to team up with Borthwick in 2024. an unprecedented situation and they battled in the premier league table to reach the top four and continue to fight for the trophy they won by beating the Saracens last year. On May 14, in the second semi-final, The Tigers will go to meet Sale Sharks.
Since then, Leicester has hired Dan McKellar from the Wallabies as their first full-time head coach since the Borthwick era. The Aussie will now have to find a replacement for Harrison.
McKellar, however, has already been given one appointment — Alan Dickens, the England under-20 manager who will join the Tigers next season. Matt Everard, Brett Deacon and Matt Smith have taken on additional responsibilities at Leicester since Borthwick and Sinfield left for England.
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Steve Borthwick approached Leicester to help him as England turn the World Cup around later this year. Photo: Getty Images/Bob Bradford
That says a lot about the extent of the recovery process that Steve Borthwick had to undertake after he was parachuted at 11:00 to oversee England's World Cup preparations. Since then, it has taken five months to complete his coaching team. .
If England's return of just two Six Nations Championship wins for the third consecutive season underscored the amount of work to be done during World Cup camps in July and August, finding coaches of the right quality and commitment and who were affordable was just as difficult.
Unsurprisingly, in an hour of need, Borthwick turned again to Leicester Tigers, the club he had led to the Premier League title, to fill the vacancy of scrum coach after the departure of Richard Cockerill to Montpellier.
Borthwick was originally named Ian Peel, a former England under-20 manager who has been striker manager at Saracens since 2015, as his first choice, especially as the former Newcastle Falcons defender can also coach lineout and maul. but it was clear that he committed his long-term future to the Premier League leaders.
But Borthwick also knows firsthand about Tom Harrison's influence at Leicester and while his appointment will no doubt further strain relations between the RFU and last season's Premier League champions, his appointment will at least add to the collective mentality and commitment to the head coach. England team. trying to create a national structure at the top.
England may be rich in resources, but they don't have much time right now. The upside here is that Harrison's appointment will be a smooth one, the latest addition from Welford Road, moving with Richard Wigglesworth, Leicester's current acting director of rugby, who will lead England's attacking strategy for the World Cup.
With Kevin Sinfield, already serving as defensive coach, and Aled Walters, also joining from Leicester, who will be tasked with preparing England players for Test rugby and implementing Borthwick's game plan. An England coaching team that has been absent since the breakup of Borthwick/Paul Gastard and Neil Hatley in 2018.
Tony Roques, GB Sevens head coach, is another longtime partner of Borthwick. Roques, a former winger for the Cornish Pirates and England Sevens, was the captain of England's under-18 Grand Slam winning team, in which Borthwick was in the second row.
It is little known that he joined Eddie Jones. the team will be doing contact work during the World Cup training camp ahead of the 2019 World Cup and will be tasked with similar work this summer.
The challenge Borthwick faced was to strike a balance between the need to appoint trainers for immediate work hand in hand with a challenge that many will only be available after the World Cup.
In this sense, his achievement is significant. England can hit their World Cup camps with a coaching team that is both determined and dedicated. In the final years of the Jones family' there was a feeling that not many of England's brightest young managers wanted to work with the national team, a problem that was as unforgivable as any result on the pitch.
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