Mike Catt on facing familiar face Steve Borthwick and what to expect from England 

Ireland will travel to Twickenham next weekend. 

Ireland's assstnat coach Mike Catt during a training session at the Aviva Stadium.

It was September of 2001 and just days after Bath’s 48-9 savaging by Leicester Tigers when Mike Catt sat with the media and tore into some of his younger teammates on the back of what had been the club’s fourth straight league defeat.

European champions less than three years earlier and a club that had so recently won six leagues in eight seasons, they would finish that campaign second from bottom but some of those fresher faces escaped Catt’s wrath that day.