Not enough variation in England’s approach

JEFF PROBYN
A FRONT ROW VIEW OF THE GAME

WELL, last week’s game between Wales and England certainly showed us a lot about how the training has been going and whether the myriad of coaches involved on both sides had managed to get their plans through to the players.
Warren Gatland and his coaching team certainly seem to have had more success than Steve Borthwick whose England team looked to be stuck on the same plan used in the last Six Nations and the one before. Once again it was all short pops to forwards close to the breakdown with a limited inter passing of the ball between the forw...

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