Ball In Touch: The latest edition of WhatCulture’s first regular rugby column by our rugby correspondent, Jeff Ball. With the new England Elite Performance Squad to be announced on Wednesday, we discuss who is likely to be picked.
England Reborn
A new year traditionally is seen as a fresh start, an opportunity to clear out the clutter and begin again. Therefore is it particularly apt England will be naming a new Elite Performance Squad (Eps) for the forthcoming Six Nations with 2012 barely two weeks old.
With what has went before dissipating into the haze of 2011, a wave of mid-season optimism is washing over the England set-up, a curious sensation given it is a feeling normally only seen around clubhouses in the middle of summer as boots are dusted down for the start of pre-season.
The man at the middle of this mood is Stuart Lancaster, king-in-waiting whilst the king...
England Reborn
A new year traditionally is seen as a fresh start, an opportunity to clear out the clutter and begin again. Therefore is it particularly apt England will be naming a new Elite Performance Squad (Eps) for the forthcoming Six Nations with 2012 barely two weeks old.
With what has went before dissipating into the haze of 2011, a wave of mid-season optimism is washing over the England set-up, a curious sensation given it is a feeling normally only seen around clubhouses in the middle of summer as boots are dusted down for the start of pre-season.
The man at the middle of this mood is Stuart Lancaster, king-in-waiting whilst the king...
- 1/10/2012
- by Jeff Ball
- Obsessed with Film
The man who led England to World Cup victory on the pitch in 2003 failed to lead his current crop of players to anything like the heights of those golden years at the recent World Cup and resigned from his position as England Team Manager “in the best interests of English rugby.”
With his contract up next month, after three and a half years in charge, even life’s most optimistic souls would have been struggling to construct a winning argument for it being extended. Since the return from the incident strewn trip to New Zealand, a tidal wave of criticism and reviews has been directed Johnson’s way, much of it focussed upon his seeming lack of ability to control a bunch of players most of whom really should have known better.
With the pool games in full flow, it seemed not a day would go by without another incident...
With his contract up next month, after three and a half years in charge, even life’s most optimistic souls would have been struggling to construct a winning argument for it being extended. Since the return from the incident strewn trip to New Zealand, a tidal wave of criticism and reviews has been directed Johnson’s way, much of it focussed upon his seeming lack of ability to control a bunch of players most of whom really should have known better.
With the pool games in full flow, it seemed not a day would go by without another incident...
- 11/16/2011
- by Jeff Ball
- Obsessed with Film
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