The coach has a more experienced squad but should maybe bring in a fresh voice to his backroom team and try to emulate the All Blacks,graft flavoured with craftWales’s World Cup campaign lasted only a week longer than England’s but it was a qualified success rather then a review-inducing flop, further proof that they are more skilled at climbing the foothills of Europe rather than scaling the mountains of the southern hemisphere.
The eight years of the Warren Gatland era were distilled into the final three weeks of the tournament: steel, and focus,determination and sheer bloody-mindedness were enough to topple England at Twickenham, but at the point when lungs were bursting, and legs were cramping up and minds were running on autopilot,they needed more against Australia and South Africa; typically, they came up fractionally short.
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Source: theguardian.com