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France 22-16 England Red Rose surrender Six Nations title as they are beaten in Paris

France 22-16 England Red Rose surrender Six Nations title as they are beaten in Paris

England are expected to welcome back skipper Dylan Hartley for Saturday's showdown with Grand Slam-chasing Ireland at Twickenham.

"That's how you build a team - with a defence, because you can see that every player fights for the other".

"Rob Kearney, obviously. I think he had 140 running metres with the ball - that's exceptional in any game. Their clarity of thought and accuracy in deed is in stark contrast to what we saw from England in Paris". "It's freakish again because we won it watching a game over which we didn't have any control over but we managed to control enough of the things that we were involved with to get the 19 points on the table that we needed". France, who had lost nine of their previous 11 Six Nations meetings against England, were well aware of this.

Much in the same way as past year, when England were confirmed Six Nations winners ahead of their final game in Dublin after Ireland's loss in Wales, Joe Schmidt's side will head to Twickenham seeking a Grand Slam in a role reversal with England.

Exeter's hard grafting Don Armand has been drafted into the squad as cover and given the injury problems in the back row, could play a role against Ireland. Garry Ringrose has just joined us and did a super job today so you're always trying to blend in new players. This newspaper covered the pre-Six Nations statement that referees would allow greater licence to "jackalling" players. "I said at the start of the tournament they're a good team and they've proved that - they're worthy champions of the Six Nations".

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"I think there were a couple of players who worked incredibly hard".

They very almost recovered - despite giving away 16 penalties - to win the game at the last, but they never threatened to score four tries, meaning Ireland could celebrate a week early, France claiming a 22-16 win on the day. And it's better happening now because it gives us a chance to fix it. The lineout setpiece came under serious pressure against Scotland like it did in Murrayfield past year and for all the possession and territory, Ireland should probably be exiting the "Red Zone" with more points. We still don't know whether he will be available or not. "We knew that the physical challenge would be key".

"Johnny Sexton made a similar comment when he said no-one was jumping around in the dressing room, basically indicating that no-one was celebrating a win yet but we'll do that on Saturday if we achieve the Grand Slam".

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