Our State of the Nation on England after the Autumn Nations Series.

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Louis Chapman-Coombe dissects England's Autumn Nations Series and doesn't hold back on the performances and head coach Steve Borthwick.

What is the best England could have expected from their final Test of the year? Probably something like this. But, really, this was the proverbial game they could not win. It has been tempting, as it always is with England, to cry crisis at every opportunity, especially this autumn as that losing run stretched out like a man on a rack. But it is hardly stretching a point, either, to observe that only the slightest adjustment to what actually...