Blow as scrum-half Alex Mitchell is ruled out of campaign
Johnson, Dallaglio, Leonard and co to dine with players
Steve Borthwick has turned to England’s 2003 World Cup winning heroes to arrest his side’s drastic decline after suffering another setback with the scrum-half Alex Mitchell ruled out for the rest of the Six Nations.
Borthwick’s squad were on Wednesday night due to have dinner with members of the 2003 team, including the captain, Martin Johnson, Test centurion Jason Leonard and Lewis Moody, who in October revealed he had been diagnosed with motor neurone disease.
Borthwick urged his players to use the opportunity to ask how they dealt with setbacks after England’s Six Nations hopes went up in smoke for another year after last Saturday’s’s dismal 42-21 defeat by Ireland, seven days after they were outclassed by Scotland.
