The England head coach Stuart
Lancaster, insisted there was still time to transform his side into Rugby World
Cup champions this year despite his captain, Chris Robshaw, describing the
failure to snatch the RBS Six Nations title from Ireland on Saturday as a
"devastating" blow.
England will now go into the Rugby World
Cup in September and October on the back of four successive second-place
finishes in the championship and ranked fourth in the world behind New Zealand,
South Africa and Ireland.
Stuart Lancaster, however, insisted that with
high-calibre players such as Joe Launchbury, Owen Farrell and Manu Tuilagi set
to return to the squad after long-term injury, he was convinced that in the
wake his side's stunning 55-35 victory against France, England would have a
squad capable of winning the World Cup when the tournament gets under way in
September.
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