BORDEAUX, France — An emotional John Mitchell insisted the Purple Roses may develop into certainly one of England’s best sporting groups in historical past after successful their eighth consecutive Ladies’s Six Nations.
England defeated a rising French military in Bordeaux, successful 43-28 within the Grand Slam deciding match.
The match additionally comes after final 12 months’s World Cup success, the place Mitchell’s workforce grew to become the primary English rugby workforce, males’s or ladies’s, to win back-to-back Grand Slams on both aspect of the World Cup.
Requested if the workforce may declare to be certainly one of England’s greatest groups in any sport, an emotional Mitchell mentioned, preventing again tears. “I believe we must be fairly shut.
“Once more, we’re glad that folks say that about us, however I believe what’s extra vital to us morally are the values that we dwell by.
“They’re crackers. They’re courageous. They do not take any criticism. They’re simply so enthusiastic. That is what makes them so good. It’s totally straightforward for me to suit into that (setting).”
The top coach additionally praised their need to enhance and pursue success.
“I believe… it was nice to win the World Cup at house and I will always remember it,” he mentioned.
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“However we’re in a brand new cycle. No England workforce, males’s or ladies’s, has ever performed consecutive World Cups. It is not that we’re pushed by outcomes, however we needed to be very aware of successful.”
Captain Meg Jones echoed Mitchell’s sentiments, praising the workforce’s resilience in successful regardless of accidents and absences.
“It simply reveals the psychological resilience of this group,” Jones mentioned.
“There have been some doubters… It is outdoors noise and that is pure, particularly if you’re on the high. You at all times have a goal in your again.
“We would like that and we wish the chase. We need to play competitively and are available out each week.”
