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Steve Borthwick has been told to build his England forward pack around Leicester Tigers' old school hard man George Martin, whose physical presence echoes that of 2003 World Cup winning captain Martin Johnson.The England legend is convinced Martin is going to be a star at Test level and his physicality during the 23-22 win over Ireland in the 2024 Six Nations Championship showed the impact the Leicester youngster can have on the sport.
“Martin was the flagbearer for that performance, he was one of the two or three outstanding performances on the field. Since Johnson’s retirement, England have lacked an enforcer, a player who can dominate the opposition through his physical presence on the pitch. In the 2023 Rugby World Cup semi final, Martin folded Franco Mostert, the Springbok lock, with a colossal hit and it signalled his arrival at the top of the sport.
“I was worried a couple of years ago when I was watching the International game - you looked at the three best teams at the time who were France, South Africa and Ireland, and certainly with South Africa and France, you recognised the size and ferocity of their forwards was allowing them to play the game in a very different way, and I was worried that England were lacking that size of forward.
“There’s been lots of articles written about Handre Pollard telling his South African team mates before the World Cup semi-final that Martin is the real deal, and they’ve got some pretty handy second rows of their own.“For Pollard to say that this guy hits like a South African, and I don’t think anyone believed him until he put that shot in .
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