Got everything we deserved today, 9 changes but still played the same bland rugby with no idea how to play if the kicking game doesn't work. Borthwick is done, he had 2 1/2 years longer in the job than he deserved because the players went off script in the last world cup and similar happened last 6N but the Lions gave him his reset chance to go back to the only game he knows and it's come back to bite us.
The only positive I can think of is that it's happened now not next year, which will give the new guy a chance to try some things before he has to settle on his world cup squad. Massive decision for the RFU now though because there's a lot of quality and depth available for the squad but we need someone who's not afraid to play a game that suits the squad instead of trying to shoehorn them into being Leicester from the early 2000s.
Fair play to Italy though, they were solid and stuck to their plan of how to nullify us whilst having the sense to realise that letting Ioane and Menoncello play their natural game would create chances, the latter was the man of the match by a very long way, exceptional player.
