NICK CAIN

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Why is it that England’s best coaches are currently inspiring Ireland and France, the nations that are ranked first and second in the world? And how is it that the RFU invariably makes a cock-up of England’s coaching succession plans?
These are questions that impact directly on the effectiveness of England at international level, and deserve to be at the top of the RFU’s planning, rather than the afterthought it has become in the Bill Sweeney administration.
Let’s start with Shaun Edwards, the peerless France defence coach who has slipped out ...