What England Can Learn from the Rugby World Cup 2015 Semi-Finalists

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Published: October 22, 2015

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These are sobering times for England’s players.

Many of them have already donned their club colours while the tournament plays on without them. Meanwhile, the review of their performances in white is under way.

Newspaper columns are piling up by the day as to how it should conclude, as well as whether or not the panel consists of the right people at all. Sam Peters, writing for the Daily Mail, certainly thinks Sir Ian McGeechan should be nowhere near it.


But as the panel get down to work, they would do well to take time out on Saturday and Sunday to watch and learn from the four sides left in the tournament.

 

Argentina

New Zealand and Argentina, especially, showed the world how best to play this sport during their quarter-final victories.

It is no coincidence that they are umbilically linked by the man who guided the All Blacks to their 2011 triumph, as former England coach Brian Ashton explained in the Independent:

The consultancy work done in the country by Graham Henry influenced some of the key decision-makers in Puma circles and encouraged them to explore non-traditional ways of preparing for, and playing, Test rugby against the strongest opposition. When I made a coaching visit to Argentina in March, it was immediately obvious there was a genuine eagerness to think outside the box. The outcome of that thinking is the reality we saw in Cardiff last weekend, when a proactive Argentina side played with such courage and ambition.



Courage, ambition and no little intelligence. Dean Ryan points out in the Guardian the strategy of leaving two men out on the wing who, if fed fast enough ball, will always have a two-on-one in front of them. See their first, second and third tries as examples.

It was a clever plan allowed to flourish because the Pumas did what England could not: produce fast ball from forwards...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Rugby Union

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