I’ve been receiving lots of questions over the last few weeks, here are my answers to some of the longer ones!
Including how England look with 18 months to go until RWC, has this Welsh team peaked, who is Clive Woodward’s protégé in World Rugby and a few thoughts on Sam Burgess…
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This current England team is not too dissimilar. The loss to France in 2002 played a huge role in us winning the World Cup. We realised from that game that we needed more than just a Plan A. All our defeats helped us in the build-up. In 1999 at Wembley, Scott Gibbs taught us the importance of taking points and our match in Murrayfield told us about playing the weather! All our defeats helped us!! Honestly!!
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Wales definitely need a big game against France. They struggled against Ireland and confidence is tough to turn on and off like a tap! They are clearly tired post-Lions but Wales can still beat the best, they just need to turn their current form around soon so previous big wins don’t become a distant memory.
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I really like what Stuart Lancaster is doing with this England team but he is one of several coaches who are doing some great work. I’m a big fan of the welsh fitness programme which is paying obvious dividends, I’m enjoying what Hansen is doing with New Zealand and don’t underestimate Joe Schmidt, he is very very canny. Ultimately, all the top sides are doing stuff they aren’t telling us about!
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It would be awesome to see Sam try our game, he would undoubtedly be an absolute unit to stop! The most successful convert? The one and only Jason Robinson, a legend of our time. The greatest player we have ever had?? He has a good claim on it.
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