England moaners should keep traps shut blasts Danny Care

Danny Care has launched a broadside at anonymous members of England‘s failed World Cup squad for airing their personal grievances in public.
At least two players have made their feelings known by outlining their disrespect for boss Stuart Lancaster and his coaches and slamming squad selections, most notably the inclusion of Rugby League convert Sam Burgess over Luther Burrell.
Harlequins scrum-half Care believes their opinions should have stayed in-house, telling The Rugby Paper: “It’s not great. We wanted to stick together but it hasn’t happened and that’s the problem after a bitter disappointment like the one we had.
“People want stories and a couple of lads have come out anonymously, which isn’t good from them. From a personal point of view, you just want to get back to the club, get your head down and play as well as you can to get another shot at it.
“The whole World Cup was massively disappointing and to crash out in the pool stages was something we never thought would happen, but it did and you have to move on. For me, that’s involved switching back into club mode.”
Care reveals he had no qualms about taking part in the RFU‘s review, in which head of professional coaching Kevin Bowring has interviewed players.
Reports suggested squad members would boycott the review, but Care said: “I’ve sent my thoughts to Kevin and I was more than happy to be part of it.
“What happened speaks for itself and the Wales game was the one that killed us. We should have pushed on and won a game we were in control of, but we let them back in through indiscipline and sloppy errors and Wales got the win.
“We were beaten by a better team in Australia and before you know it you’re out of the World Cup. But it’s a group with a huge amount of potential and if we stick together and learn from the lows, we can turn them into a positive future.”
England’s core skills were exposed under scrutiny and Care believes consideration should be given to re-establishing a National Academy in which a young, elite group of future Test players would benefit from specialised coaching.
Care, 28, who spent two years under the tutelage of the visionary Brian Ashton before the Bath-based National Academy was abruptly disbanded in 2007, believes such a scheme would enhance the academy programmes of clubs.
He explained: “The National Academy was huge for me and massively instrumental in me making that next level from potentially playing to actually being a professional rugby player who could go on and play for England.
“In Brian Ashton I got to work with an unbelievable coach who thought about the game in different ways to anything I’d experienced and it was brilliant to spend time in Bath with all the specialist coaches we had.
“Back then it was Brian, Dorian West, Jim Mallinder, John Wells and Mike Friday, who was great for me. Mike was my mentor and a great sounding board, somebody who played a big role when I signed for Quins in 2006.
“I owe Mike and the National Academy a lot. You only got in if you were the best and I was in with people like James Haskell, Tom Rees and Dylan Hartley. I can say only good things about the experience.”
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