Danny Cipriani: English rugby is 'digging its own grave', says former fly-half

England person mislaid 4 of their past 5 matches, conceding 20 tries successful the process

Former England fly-half Danny Cipriani said English rugby was "digging its ain grave" pursuing Saturday's 29-10 decision to Ireland.

Cipriani, 35, said its "outdated" traditions were "shackling the game".

"If you're trained to deliberation and not to consciousness you're ever going to beryllium 1 measurement behind," helium wrote connected Twitter.

"English rugby is digging its ain grave, led by radical that bash not recognize the creation of the game.

"It's steeped successful contented and heritage, which is outdated and the precise happening shackling the game."

He was captious of coaching, which helium said was ne'er done with "game understanding, intelligence, spatial designation oregon nuance".

"It is each 'how pugnacious tin I amusement to the satellite I am?' Bravado. It volition lone ever bring a definite level of performance," helium added.

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Steve Borthwick has led England to conscionable 3 wins successful 8 matches since being appointed Eddie Jones' successor arsenic caput manager past December.

The erstwhile Leicester manager led England to 4th spot successful this year's Six Nations and his broadside conceded 5 tries successful a broad World Cup warm-up decision by Grand Slam winners Ireland successful Dublin connected Saturday.

Borthwick besides faces an anxious hold connected a imaginable World Cup suspension for fig 8 Billy Vunipola, who was sent disconnected against Ireland, portion skipper Owen Farrell besides faces a hearing aft picking up a reddish paper successful their previous warm-up lucifer against Wales.

But portion mediocre signifier and indiscipline has hampered England's preparations for the World Cup successful France, which starts connected 8 September, Cipriani does not judge the blasted rests solely connected Borthwick's shoulders.

"It doesn't mean Borthwick isn't close for the job," helium wrote. "He took implicit a precise woody strategy near by Eddie [Jones], which is simply a precise pugnacious occupation to get the players to unlearn what was ingrained successful them."

Cipriani, who claimed conscionable 1 headdress nether Jones - the past of his 16 planetary appearances - believes the operation of English rugby, on with attitudes towards coaching and the game's development, has to alteration earlier immoderate England manager tin succeed.

"[England need] unfastened discussions wherever coaches invited caller ideas that consciousness uncomfortable to them due to the fact that it's the lone mode it volition grow," helium wrote.

Cipriani argued that coaches should "build assurance successful players' determination making" alternatively than conscionable teaching them to conform to a plan. He thinks they should person a imaginativeness that players privation to travel "or person qualities that you admire" specified arsenic "knowledge, compassion, affectional intelligence, love, honesty and humility".

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