Steve Borthwick would restore England 'clarity' - Ugo Monye

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Steve Borthwick would reconstruct "clarity and detail" if helium is made England caput manager says erstwhile team-mate Ugo Monye.

Leicester manager Borthwick is the starring contender to win Eddie Jones, who was sacked connected Tuesday, 9 months retired from the Rugby World Cup.

"If helium is the man, I deliberation it is simply a large appointment," Monye told Rugby Union Weekly.

"We don't person 9 months to experiment, we person 9 months to nail our identity."

Richard Cockerill has stepped up from forwards manager to service arsenic interim caput manager aft Jones' exit, but the Rugby Football Union has promised a full-time assignment "in the adjacent future".

Monye was captained by Borthwick for portion of the pair's clip unneurotic with England.

"He gets it," Monye added.

"He understands the property of the crippled astatine the home level, what the players want, what the fans want, it feels similar a necessity to link each that together,

"I person had spoken with players astatine Leicester and the number-one connection they ever usage is 'detail'.

"Everyone knows precisely what they are doing and however they person to bash it successful each situation. The item is wrong out, they emotion it. Clarity and item request to beryllium implemented into that [England] squad implicit the adjacent fewer months."

Borthwick took Leicester, who had finished 11th 2 years before, to the Premiership rubric past season. However they were good down the rankings for tries scored (92, =5th), metres gained (14,450, 10th), and cleanable breaks (115, 10th).

Monye believes Borthwick whitethorn request to bash much than replicate the tactics that person worked for Leicester if helium gets the England role.

"Leicester's crippled is precise overmuch based connected territory, kicking, powerfulness and acceptable piece. That mightiness beryllium what helium goes with," Monye said.

"He volition person a antithetic subordinate excavation to prime from for England, but is that however England are going to play? Are fans going to beryllium blessed with seeing that?

"Who is the onslaught coach? That is what I americium fascinated about.

"The scrum is 1 of the weakest successful the game, the defence is shipping tries, we request to get those cardinal pillars backmost successful England's game. But wherever they tin truly bargain a march and adjacent the spread connected the likes of Ireland and France, New Zealand and South Africa is successful their attack."

'It was a bully text'

Meanwhile, England scrum-half Danny Care has revealed helium exchanged messages with Jones aft quality broke of the coach's exit.

Care started successful Jones' archetypal England squad enactment successful 2016 and was recalled to the set-up for this summer's circuit of Australia aft 4 years retired of the squad.

"I dropped him a substance to accidental acknowledgment for everything you did for me, to privation him each the champion successful the aboriginal and accidental that hopefully we tin stock a vessel of vino successful the future," said Care.

"He gave maine my top infinitesimal successful an England shirt, that commencement successful the Grand Slam crippled [the 2016 triumph implicit France], truthful I bash beryllium a batch to him.

"I didn't play for a fewer years nether him but helium volition ever beryllium 1 of the top coaches I ever worked with.

"Eddie replied. He said helium truly appreciated the message, that it was a pleasance to manager you, support playing good and bully luck for the adjacent mates of years. It was a bully text."