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If you thought that winning the Grand Slam at Twickenham was satisfying, imagine if Ireland started again with a head coach eliminated by English rugby after the 2015 World Cup.
Stuart Lancaster and Andy Farrell helped make Leinster the best European team, while the latter coached the defenders (Lions and Ireland) twice, who played in all-around games against the All Blacks without giving up a try.
Now, Farrell has been anointed to Joe Schmidt's Irish successor, and rumor has it that Lancaster wants to join the bill.
Meanwhile, England is in financial turmoil and is working hard in the field under Eddie Jones' annoying and abrasive leadership.
Clive Woodward is filled with remorse for these developments, as he reveals to the indifferent world of our day Daily mail.
He praises Ireland – stating that it is a smart succession plan and avoids complacency in the Irish camp over Schmidt's last year. – but criticizes the RFU for failing to recognize that coaches should not be taken aback because of simple disappointments.
Clive, unfortunately, is filled with despair.
As for England missing a brilliant coach, I'm almost desperate. Farrell has always been a remarkable person, a great player and a coach with tremendous potential.
Yes, he was part of the coaching team that had failed to deliver at the last World Cup, but what about Twickenham's common thought of coaching preparation?
Every national coach – or badistant coach like Farrell – will at some point be badociated with failure. Eddie Jones, Graham Henry, Steve Hansen, Warren Gatland, myself and many others went there and received the t-shirt. But that did not make us bad coaches.
It seems once again that the difficulty of England is an opportunity for Ireland …
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