Anatomy of a Try – Nathan Earle vs Gloucester September 2018
Transition! It's a word often used in Rugby. You’ll often hear coaches talking about transitioning, nomrally that's from defence to attack, or attack to defence. It’s essentially how a team move from getting the ball into their attack patterns or from losing the ball into a good solid defensive system. Of course the proverbial masters at it are New Zealand but this try from Harlequins Nathan Earle is a...
The Cipriani Sideshow
Few players in the English game are as high profile as Danny Cipriani. Luckily he’s been able to put the embarrassment of the summer behind him and in his first games for his new club delivered two scintillating pieces of skill resulting in tries for Matt Banahan and Charlie Sharples. Two reactive left to right passes under the pressure of the defence, one of them over 20m? No two ways about it, they were both sublime...
Wasps vs Harlequins – Final 20 Analysis
Good game management is huge in Rugby Union. Ask people what game management is and you’ll likely be pointed in the direction of a kicking fly-half or halfbacks. Of course, kicking from 10 is part of it, but collectively it’s about the direction the team moves in at any given time, the approach they take to that period of play and how accurately they execute it. It can halt a team in its tracks, stealing their...
France vs New Zealand – Analysis
Hindsight is a wonderful thing in sport and we must always bear in mind that being able to go back over tapes and figure out how things might have gone, if something had been done differently, is a luxury the players exposed in the moment simply don’t have. As a Coach you have to trust that your players have the skills and abilities to function under the most extreme of pressures, there are no rewinds, no do-overs. Essentially...
England: 6 Nations Discipline
There’s been much comparison between England under Eddie Jones and Stuart Lancaster. But, what ever the differences, it's impossible to argue with the fact England, for the first time in five years, got the job done. An area that’s understandably come in for praise has been England's defence since Gustard took over. England conceded 30 points less than in the 2015 6 Nations, thats an average...
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