The RFU’s review of Stuart Lancaster’s position is all very well,but will it address some of the fundamental issues affecting the nation’s game?Take your pick of the best and most experienced rugby coaches around: Steve Hansen, Wayne Smith, and Warren Gatland,or even Eddie Jones. With the current structure of rugby in England, not one of them could make the changes necessary to derive the team performing to the potential of the biggest rugby nation in the world.whether – or when – the review panel the Rugby Football Union has convened to rake over England’s limp World Cup performance decides Stuart Lancaster has to recede, and whoever replaces him as head coach will absorb one hand tied behind his back because the structure of the professional game in this country means he cannot fully influence it. Related: England absorb to ask whether the Premiership is the right region to develop Test players | Paul Rees Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com