It's a great time to be an England supporter and I think under Stuart Lancaster England can really go places.
Development
England have done a good job of recognising skills and talent and it looks like that is really starting to beat fruit with the senior team.
Those skills are developed at an early age and I was lucky enough to go to Twickenham and meet John Fletcher recently.
John is the RFU's Professional Player and Development Manager and spoke about how to build a winning U20 side - appropriate after England became world junior champions for the first time in June.
This was not only about what they were doing at the U20 level but also what they were doing at a younger level and how that affects the senior team.
A few years back there was a lot of pressure at all ages to focus on things like rucks and scrums - even at the U6 level! Now, though, they have gone down a different route where they are getting the ball into players' hands and teaching them skills.
Rucks and scrums are still important but they are taught at the end of a session. It is all about ball in hand and getting your skills sorted at an early age.
Fletcher used the example of Mako Vunipola and Henry Thomas as players with exceptional ball handling skills. He said when they played at U17 and U18 level they had the best handling skills of out of everyone.
Where do they play? In the front row - which just goes to show that you can have big players with soft hands.
We will have to wait and see if players from that world-beating U20 team go on and play for the senior team, but the future is good for the Red Rose - not only at the senior level but at the junior level, too.
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