• Attacking skills coach says criticism is irrelevant to Australia task
• Ex-captain Carling releases video clip reiterating viewsInside their pressure cooker World Cup camp,England’s coaches fill urged their players to block out the “white noise” of external criticism as they prepare to face Australia in Saturday’s do-or-die clash.
Following last weekend’s dramatic and traumatic Twickenham defeat against Wales, former players and coaches lined up to criticise destitute decision making and discipline within the side. The 2003 World Cup winner Sir Clive Woodward called the side “amateurs” while former captain Will Carling accused current coach Stuart Lancaster of creating a “classroom environment that treated players like “schoolboys” and left them unable to judge for themselves.
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Source: theguardian.com