Deep thanks are due to Matt Sherratt and Lee Blacktt for trying last weekend, with Wales and England respectively, which can less be more when it comes to training rugby equipment. In doing so, some tedious myths exposed.
In this case, the 'less' is the time together and the 'more' is the performance result. Both men had to work quickly to have a positive impact and they both achieved it with excellent style.
Sherratt was accelerated and richly acclaimed for transforming Wales from a broken chusma into a side that almost bothered Ireland, while Blacktt, the very considered coach of Bath attacks, quickly gathered the second rope of England and handled a slippery eclipse of their Irish counterparts.
Speaking at the BBC, former Wales Captain, Sam Warburton, was impressed and almost disbelief about the rapid review of Cardiff Sherratt coach, saying: 'Frequented the children, so they were full of beans for the game and printed, So fast and impressively, your attack game plan. I can't believe I made so many positive changes in a week.
There should be a lesson here for the professional game in general. Stop complicating an already complicated sport. What Sherratt and Blacktt have shown is that it does not need to take months and years to establish cohesion and fluidity and lethal power, in a team full of good players.
They have shown that it can be achieved both trusting talent and not obstructing the work with a data and details, structure and metaphorical chains.
The interim interim coach of Wales, Matt Sherratt (above) deserves great thanks and praise for demonstrating that sometimes less they can be more when it comes to training rugby equipment
Wales greatly improved the weekend and almost achieved a surprise against Ireland
Sherratt showed that he does not need to take months and years to establish cohesion and fluidity
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What an encouraging message: he chooses players in their favored positions, give them a simple summary of expectations (mentality and system) and, to some extent, let them continue with him.
You just don't expect this attitude to be launched with Steve Borthwick. According to the reports, the meticulous chief coach of England is in arms about the loss of a week of training before the next autumn campaign, but more time in the camp always equals a clear and indisputable progress? No. demons, no.
This is language on the cheek, but it could be better if they eliminated all the images of drones, the endless hours behind laptops, forensic analysis and excessive thinking of how the next opponents play and simply release good players with orders with orders concise. Or maybe prohibit them from gathering up to seven days before a test, so that they do not have enough time to tie themselves in knots.
Of course, this type of vision would undoubtedly unite the training fraternity, possibly even including Sherratt and Blacktt, in the outrage of the eyes. It would be seen as an ignorant verdict about the large amount of work that is dedicated to making a team work well with the ball, at a time when the defenses are so suffocating.
But there is something better in rugby as a product when playing in a natural and frequent way. Look at France's performance in Rome. After his route attack, he softened the Italians too powerful; Everything was 'Joue, Joue', interpreting what they saw and using well -perfected instincts to search and exploit the space. Can I imagine doing that? No, either. I can't now, anyway.
Fabien Gallthie was supposed to be on the verge of a galic implosion of registered brand, after the shock of his team on Twickenham and the bitter recriminations that exploded in the sequelae. Too much for that theory. Instead, his France team produced rugby of heaven.
Perhaps everything arose because it spent day and night looking at data on a laptop and loaded more details to its players, or perhaps, only perhaps, he trusted his own instincts to alter the selection and simplify the tactics.
Meanwhile, if Sherratt maintains its miraculous impact, the WRU should turn it into its only goal to replace Warren Gatland, whatever it says about not wanting work. Why not? His lack of profile and test pedigree should not matter if he shows that he can do the job. The solution does not have to be on the other side of the world, it can hide in view.
Lee Blacktt must be praised for the same reason with England A, who beat Ireland a 28-12
Sherratt was appointed interim chief coach after Wales separated from Warren Gatland (above)
Dublin Decider was a cookie
What shooting title is in perspective when Ireland and France meet in Dublin on March 8.
Promises to be an intriguing clash of cultures; Irish efficiency and nous and organization against French power and brilliance. It is the game that will sell the tournament to the broader world. It is the game that should make the issuing emitters to offer for the next television agreement of the six nations after this year's championship comes to an end (once officials have finally resolved the League of the nations, to complete the rights package).
It is the game that should remind southern super powers that the best of the North can rise to their heights, despite so much evidence of the World Cup otherwise.
Let's be clear, most neutrals will yearn for a French victory, since it would establish a glorious Super Saturday climax to the annual European masterpiece, with three teams potentially in the mixture to claim the title.
Trophic replicas in various places, different organized and lists color tapes, multiple stocks of ice champagne and fireworks of celebration, also, please, please.
Ireland welcomes France Next on March 8, a match that will surely be a decisive title
British and Irish lions with a new accent?
As things go, there could hardly be British and Irish accents within the potential test back line of the lions under this summer.
During the weekend, the Kiwi contingent of Ireland even more improved its chances of presenting in the series against the Wallabies, since James Lowe, Bundee Aki and Jamison Gibson-Park starred in the hard victory over Wales.
On Twickenham, the South African giant of Scotland, Duhan Van Der Merwe, was a man of the match against England and Tom Jordan of Auckland was an artist prominent in the midfield, in the absence of the Australian captain of the team and lion waiting, Sione, sione. Tuipulotou.
Meanwhile, there is a wide variety of native talents in Openside, where Ben Curry showed that he can become a tour contender, along with the twin brother Tom, while Jac Morgan issued another epic statement about his kind of court and Rory Darge Co -Capitanes Scotland with distinction.
Good luck to Andy Farrell with softening through that lot, without forgetting Sam Underhill, Tommy Reffell, Josh van der Fier and even Jack Willis, in Toulouse.
James Lowe (center), born in New Zealand, is a leader to be on the Lions tour this year
France was elegant in more than one sense against Italy
If there are going to be changes in the kit as a means to help people who give blind to distinguish the teams, which is obviously a well -intentioned initiative, then alternative shirts must be subject to strict standards.
Unfortunately, Ireland was a dress catastrophe, which seemed like green paint stripes on a white background. It would not be difficult to imagine that, after arriving as a replacement, Aki voluntarily spilled a lot of his own blood to partially cover the atrocity that was forced to use.
At least France was less offensive in the spectator eye with its shirts of smooth white change kits, with the characteristic stripes of the suppliers at the top. It wasn't just his attack game that was elegant.
The captain of France, Antoine Dupont and his teammates, looked like the part in his visitor kit against Italy
The last word
In the midst of the sequelae of the Calcuta Cup closed meeting on Twickenham, the surprise that Finn Russell of Scotland was forced to take his conversion shot for Glory from the wrong place.
At that time, it seemed that he was trying to 'steal' a couple of meters, from the left touch line, but resulted in the footage that was wrongly ordered to establish the two -meter shirt too wide, by the referee by the referee. Pierre Brousset.
How can that happen, since the decisive act in a great game, compared to 82,000 spectators and millions of spectators?
It is a completely unacceptable supervision, when there is an EMP that can use chamber images to provide guidance to the referee at crucial junctures, that Russell's conversion to win the party to death was certainly.
This episode occurred after Tommy Freeman's attempt could stand up, even challenging the most superficial look of repetitions. It was not a great occasion for Rugby officers and demands action.
Russell should have had the right to appeal against the placement he imposed, but that would have required the shooting clock to stop. A mechanism must be established to avoid a repetition of the type of error that unfairly damages the prospects of a team and undermines the credibility of the sport.