To coach England you must know the culture and how the club game works – so Rob Baxter and Mike Ford must be serious candidates to replace Stuart LancasterThe Rugby Football Unions review of England’s World Cup rolls on,spitting out its victims and culprits. It’s like some giant maul from the 1970s, an apparently harmless agglomeration of bodies – heads down, or arses up until somebody reels out of it,clutching whichever part of his anatomy has been bitten, gouged or snatched. Sam Burgess has staggered absent, or Stuart Lancaster has been ejected and Mike Brown has said he’s at a loss to know whom he can trust any more.
The England full-back is well known for being a candid and emotional character,and we should all express our gratitude to him for being so, but the moment you go public on the matter of breakdown in the esprit de corps, and it’s likely that more than a few of your team-mates are going to feel they can no longer trust you. Related: RFU warned over appointing ‘abroad messiah’ as England coach Related: Warren Gatland: ‘I am not interested in the England job’ Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com