Forget Woodward, Welsh Skipper Alfie's the One Who has to Inspire the Lions This Time
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Sir clive woodward is relying on the Welsh cavalry to rescue his flagging coaching reputation against New Zealand tomorrow. How he needs them, too, after what has to date been a shambles of a Lions tour. The England World Cup winner continues to bang the drum that his British Lions squad is the best prepared in history. Well, if its on and off-field organisation is anything to go by, it's a pretty hollow claim. To put it mildly. Virtually everything is changed at the last minute, from press conferences, to team announcements, even to line-out calls. It points to a chaotic organisation, one that can't make its mind up and is prone to last- minute changes of direction.
Witness Woodward's 11 changes for tomorrow's game. Why did he get it so badly wrong in the first Test, we have to ask?See the full content of this document
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Forget Woodward, Welsh Skipper Alfie's the One Who has to Inspire the Lions This Time
It is no surprise, in hindsight, we saw a line-out shambles in the 21-3 first Test defeat, when 10 times possession was lost on the Lions' throw.
It emerged that Woodward and the charisma twins, Test coaches Andy Robinson and Eddie O'Sullivan, had changed the line-out ca...See the full content of this document
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