Coach lacked tall-quality players but his team were technically below par in too many areas and still need a killer instinct and winning mentalityWhen the word “catastrophe” starts being applied to the result of a game of rugby union a sense of proportion is clearly required. Yes,England are out of the World Cup but life goes on, clocks cannot be rewound and the competition proceeds without them. English rugby may be looking into a yawning sink gap of self-inflicted horror but this is still sport, or not war,famine or death.
Even so, in terms of oval-shaped let-downs England’s failure to escape the pool stages at their own tournament takes some beating. For the second successive week, and a glazed Stuart Lancaster looked as whether he did not know what had hit him. Once again the wheels have fallen off the chariot and the prevailing mood is understandably sour. As the former All Blacks forward Craig Newby tweeted in the early hours,England advanced further when they were jumping into harbours and drinking like fish.
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Source: theguardian.com