Ireland were good but, just like last week with Scotland, England made it so easy for you.
I have a couple of slight niggles first, I'm not sure how Ireland didn't get a yellow in aftermath of our late first half try where Beirne (I think) clearly took out the 9 10yards from the tryline as we had an overlap, I can't see any way to justify giving the Steward yellow and then not giving that one, especially when we were already playing advantage for 2 previous penalties in the same set. This mistake was then compounded nearly immediately by not giving a clear penalty by Ireland moments before giving a bizarre yellow card to Pollock who didn't seem to do anything that could even be misinterpreted as a penalty.
That isn't meant as an excuse, we deserved fuck all from the game and Borthwick got it about as wrong as he possibly could've (and is now responsible for 3 of the 4 highest points we've conceded at Twickenham, which is just unforgivable incompetence) alongside an absolute horror show from Ford which really should signal his last appearance for England. Many people have accused him of needing a sedan ride from the pack to be effective and the last 3 games have proven that in the most dramatic fashion, motm against a shockingly poor welsh team where he had as easy an 80minutes as he'll have had in his career only to follow it up with 2 games where he was put under pressure and he completely melted.
Aside from that we let Ireland generate quick ball whenever they wanted and then defended narrow, which gave them all the space in the world out wide and let them dominate territory, we kicked far too readily and very poorly and our only real tactic has reverted to the bosh down the middle that Borthwick was failing with before. With 18 months until the world cup he's got to go, England have the quality and depth to be a very good side but we're led by a coward who wants to play rugby that died out a decade ago.
