You get about 12 minutes from each game.

This DVD was put together very early on in “the new Millennium”, and the Dallaglio commentary is all about: “we need to keep doing this in a World Cup”.
So it’s of interest as it’s the time that England started to win on the World stage and began to assemble their World Cup side, but as a highlights package, there are a few problems.
Crucially, England don’t score many tries in these games. And watching Wilkinson belt it over from all corners of the pitch is admirable but hardly thrilling when seen years later.

And there are games I thought might be there which aren’t. e.g. England’s sensational win in Ireland in 2003. Or any of the summer tour to Australia and New Zealand in 2003, when England were sensational, let alone any of the World Cup.

What’s happening in these years is that England’s second row and back row forwards were strangling opposition and putting forward a platform for Wilkinson to kick penalties or the occasional break from the backs. Yes, Robinson does glitter here, and Greenwood shows what a loss he has been: the only guy to glue England’s back division together in the last five years.

So it’s good to remember a time when we could genuinely beat all comers, but it’s not thrilling as a highlights package.