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THE king of sports, as Rugby Union supporters once dubbed it, has been knocked around in recent weeks, with the verbal fisticuffs focused on the current dominance of defence over attack at international level.
It has led two of our sport’s ‘supercoaches’– current England head coach Eddie Jones, and his 2003 World Cupwinning predecessor, Sir Clive Woodward – taking up the cudgels.
Woodward dislikes the way that international coaches have elevated defence over attack, and put it at the top of their agenda. He has argue...