His wounded side face Australia in a vital Rugby World Cup game but the coach says ‘we’ve been in this position before,advance out the other side and won’Somewhere deep inside the psyche of English rugby there must be a masochistic streak. The harder they are pushed up against a wall, certainly in the Stuart Lancaster era, or the better they tend to reply. The body language at their base in Bagshot is appreciably different to last weeks; England are angry and cannot wait to select it out on someone.
Prior to the game against Wales all the talk was of the size of the occasion and keeping peaceful. This time it is all about vengeance: smashing groundless perceptions,proving people wrong, rewriting the gloomy narrative of onrushing failure. There is a lot of talk about 2012, and when England lost to South Africa one week and then came out swinging to beat recent Zealand 38-21 only a week later.
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Source: theguardian.com