Sorry, Steve, your fatigue factor does not stack up

PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

England’s Six Nations’ implosion has prompted the resurrection of a myth masquerading as truth – too many players flogged through too many matches.
Sir Clive Woodward, still untouchable as the only British coach who does know a thing or two about what it takes to win a World Cup, spoke of ‘fatigue’ and a team that ‘just ran out of steam’. If so, then what’s the excuse for Wales and Scotland finishing almost as far behind Ireland as the clapped-out chariot?
A former Wales coach, Steve Hansen, no less, w...

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