he told Rugby Union Weekly.<\/a><\/p>\n“They can see the direction this team is going on, the way it is tracking.<\/p>\n
“Two weeks ago we met as a team and I spoke to them about how the last seven Six Nations Championships have been decided on the last round of fixtures.<\/p>\n
“I think it’s 17 of the last 20.<\/p>\n
“On 14 March we’re playing against a brilliant France team in Paris.<\/p>\n
“We want to be in a position in that game to get what we all want to achieve. We want English fans flooding across the channel to get there and watch that game.<\/p>\n
“The only way you get to that point is taking care of every step along the journey.”<\/p>\n
Borthwick predicts a barrage of a box-kicks will be the first obstacle in his side’s way with Wales – in new coach Steve Tandy’s first Six Nations campaign in charge – taking to the Twickenham skies.<\/p>\n
“He’s brought a defensive system from Scotland where they’ve two men tackling high, trying to hold people up in the air,” added Borthwick said of his opposite number.<\/p>\n
“You can see they know they’ve got the pace on the edges, so they’re going to come in and try to move the ball to the edges.<\/p>\n
“The biggest thing, the thing that’s core to their game is that contestable kick game. I reckon they’re probably going to kick maybe 50 contestable kicks here at Allianz Stadium in a couple of weeks’ time.<\/p>\n
“We’re going to be prepared for that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steve Borthwick has given England the challenge of leading their fans to a final-round assault on Paris as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-260300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}