ENGLAND HOOKER TOM Youngs confirmed his team is working on starting games better after conceding first in their opening two games of the Six Nations.
Italy scored a try in just the third minute on Saturday before England stormed back to win 47-17, while Youngs and Co. also had to come from behind in their first match of the Championship – a 21-16 victory away to Wales on 6 February.
Youngs hinted that the plethora of young players in Stuart Lancaster’s squad could be causing England’s slow starts but the 28-year-old insisted it was inexcusable.
“We’re professional players, we experience this with our clubs and it’s something we need to be better at,” he said on Tuesday.
“We’ve got some young guys in the side and they probably need to learn that experience a little bit more but it’s something we’re addressing. We’ll be talking to the coaches and the coaches will be talking to us to get a little bit of feedback, from everywhere really.”
Youngs has come off the bench against both Wales and Italy, and he claimed he is looking forward to returning to club side Leicester Tigers this weekend as England takes a break from the Six Nations until March,
“I think it’s good for us guys [who have seen less game time] to go back and play,” he said.
