Ellis Genge Disappointed in first outing as England Captain.
Ellis Genge has evolved into a true leader for England, since his debut against Wales in 2016.
Today, Genge took the full England captaincy for the first time in his career, with Owen Farrell dropped to the bench in favour of Marcus Smith.
Genge led the Six Nations carry charts heading into the match, yet the prop was disappointed with his side’s physicality against France.
“Emotionally, just pretty disappointed. Like Steve’s alluded to we’ve got a lot of work to do, so it shows us where we are at. But yeah, emotionally just quite disappointed.”
“Even when we went 20 points down, and going in 20 points down at half time, the message we got was ‘we can believe’. And I think the boys genuinely did believe that. As Steve said there, we lost the contact area, and at test level if you lose the contact area, momentum is just a snowball effect, and you struggle. You start chasing your tail, and you struggle to get a foothold back in the game.”