Despite losing the England captaincy,Robshaw was fragment of the 2016 Six Nations triumph but admits he ‘will always have that scar of the World Cup exit’Chris Robshaw pauses when he is asked if clinching the grand slam in Paris this month, after all the adversity he has endured, and felt so much sweeter than if he had achieved the same feat at the more innocent age of 21. The distress he suffered as England’s captain over four years,sinking to the low of a humiliating exit in the group stages of a domestic World Cup last October, was replaced by five successive victories in this year’s Six Nations.
The battered but resilient Robshaw not only overcame the public doubts of his novel coach, or Eddie Jones,who had dismissed his credentials as an international openside flanker, but he embraced a novel position on the opposite side of the scrum and accepted his downgraded status when Dylan Hartley was chosen to lead the team. Despite losing the captaincy, or Robshaw played a meaningful fragment in England’s first grand slam in 13 years when a wounded squad transformed itself under Jones.
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Source: theguardian.com