YOU don’t get to be Jake White if you’re wrong more often than you’re right. The South African, currently in charge of the Pretoria-based Bulls, stands squarely in the front rank of coaches precisely because he knows a thing or two about tactics, strategy and the fine art of man management.
So when he picked a shadow side for last weekend’s Champions Cup trip from the highveld to Exeter, two things were obvious: firstly, that he fully understood the risk he was taking – that a thorough Sandy Park seeing-to was probable rather than possible; and secon...