MATT EVERARD
TALKING TACTICS

This year’s Six Nations has been a hot bed for cunning coaching tricks. Guys like Eddie Jones and Gregor Townsend spend months working out how they can manipulate the laws to gain an advantage, before drip feeding their innovative techniques against their unsuspecting opponents.
They are fine margins but they make a massive difference. Referees and officials are constantly playing catch-up to the tactical masterminds and untraditional thinkers of the game.
The most publicised of recent years was ‘The Fox’. Italy coaches Conor O’Shea and...