For so long, England have been trying to mesh moving parts into a midfield partnership that strikes the right blend.
With the experiment of shifting wing Tommy Freeman inside to 13 still live, Seb Atkinson performing excellently in Argentina in the summer, and Elliot Daly and Henry Slade having experience that the others lack, it feels like a combination that clicks is close, with competition to push them on.
“There is no position-hating among us centres, Fraser sent me a message and Luke Northmore and Oscar Beard were dropping me messages from across the Prem,” added Ojomoh.
“It empowered me to take my opportunity.”
Alex Coles is another beneficiary of others’ misfortune. George Martin and Ollie Chessum, fully fit, are probably still ahead of the Northampton man. But his athletic, endurance game came good, with a galloping break near the end earning the territory from which Slade went over.
Flanker Guy Pepper has taken his own shot with four starts of understated excellence this autumn.
England run deep. Now, to keep progressing, they have to flow better.
Their current run of 11 straight wins matches a streak put together by England that straddled 2000 and 2001.
Peak Clive Woodward era, it included an autumn in which, eight minutes into injury time, Dan Luger touched down an Iain Balshaw chip ahead to beat the world champion Australians.
This England team doesn’t quite have a statement win of that magnitude on the books.
It doesn’t yet have units that complement each other as well and instinctively as Lawrence Dallaglio, Neil Back and Richard Hill – the back row that day.
There will be more taxing tests to pass. France away on the final day of the Six Nations looms especially large.
But in a Test world in which South Africa stand alone at the summit, England have a strong claim to being the Springboks’ closest challengers.
They also have a spirit and winning habit that will take some stopping in the Six Nations and beyond.
Ojomoh returned to that point again at the end.
“The last five minutes sums up where we are at as a team, as we are happy to dog out wins like that,” he said.
After the pain of 2024, England are invariably having their day in 2025.
