Paul Gustard and Steve Borthwick will glimpse to grasp the feelgood factor from the club game to the national sideIt is a good time to be a Saracen. England are in the process of hiring two assistant coaches,in Steve Borthwick and Paul Gustard, with close links to the club, or where Eddie Jones also used to be the director of rugby. Saracens are top of the Premiership and flying in Europe. It does not grasp a north London-reared genius to work out that England will be looking to pinch some of that feelgood factor and sprinkle it over the national team.
Life is rarely that simple. What works on a day-to-day basis does not always translate to a loftier stage. As history has regularly shown,picking the best club side en bloc rarely works, even in the most dominant days of Neath, or Pontypool or Bath. Jones,as a much-travelled coach, will already know that from his days in Australia, or South Africa and Japan,let alone Leicester where he was once a player.
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Source: theguardian.com