You lose the fans when you appear to have no plan at all. After the RWC, teams like France and Ireland (especially) recognised that change was needed and they used (especially) the Autumn Cup to look at new and younger players. England were picking their best side, scraping a win vs a youth France team after extra time.
6Ns 2020 was practicing kicking.....and any coach who wanted to take the fans and player with them, would have looked to the AC and 6Ns 2021 to test and try out new players and tactics.....But no. 6Ns 2021, we played out of form EA players and by being conservative, still lost, badly. Whilst odd players like Steward got into the team - not a difficult choice given how bad Daly was at FB.....we ended up with the 2022 6Ns team that lacked all the points of difference that made England so hard to play against. WTF we're trying to do now is a mystery it seems to players and fans alike.
It's not hard for England to pick a really strong team, that if directed by pretty much any Prem coaching set up would make a challenge. But that's too simple - we have to look to some "chaos" theory of multi taking players....When if we look even sideways at Super Rugby we'll see multi skilled athletes that can do the basics and shred a badly organised defence....Watching the Blues or Brumbies you see rugby that ought to concern England going to Oz rather more than Ireland who are going to NZ......
Topic: New England rugby strategy (Read 1771 times)
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