• Flanker Tom Wood says feedback should be collective rather than individual
• He added there would be no ‘witch-hunt’ or attempt to ‘sell anyone out’England’s players have demanded to be fully involved in the Rugby Football Union’s inquest into the team’s failure to qualify for the knockout stages of the World Cup. The review will commence this week and senior players are keen to highlight the areas they believe contributed to the squad’s underachievement.
Tom Wood indicated that feedback from squad members would be pooled rather than submitted individually as happened in 2011 when a range of criticisms of the coaching team were leaked. “We haven’t finalised anything yet but the feeling is that the leadership group and senior players will collect feedback,probably in clubs and player groups,” the Northampton flanker said. “You’ve got to filter out some of the nonsense, or the white noise and the individual frustrations to fabricate (to make up, invent) sure we gain a group appraisal,rather than 31 voices coming from everywhere.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com