Schooled

It disappoints me to say that the Northern Hemisphere was comprehensively schooled in the arts of attacking rugby over the weekend.

Save for the boot of Dan Parks, Scotland would have been rolled over by the continuous 'go forward' of the Argentine attack. 

England taught the Aussies a lesson in scrummaging, but in the wise words of, someone-or-other, 'a scrum does not a team make'. Everything else in the the game went the way of the Aussies. They knocked us back in attack, defence, the kicking game, even the lineouts were no pushover. Only the (reverting to type) power of the England scrum kept us in the game.

Ireland and France were quite simply blown away but New Zealand and South Africa respectively.

If that is the best the Northern Hemisphere can do (French sides currently hold the 6N, Grand Slam, and the Heineken Cup), we might as well not bother next year.

Once again, (I haven't mentioned it in these pages yet, but it will become a recurring theme) we need to shake up the coaching / management staff. The biggest (best) thing to do would be to admit we were wrong with the appointment of Martin Johnson, and get Jake White in. He came knocking three years ago, and was rudely rebuffed. Now more than ever, we need an establish international coach at the helm, and it has been proven that none of our current crop can cut the mustard.

Frustrated now.

Cheers,

Rucker.