Clearing out a team every time they have a bad tournament is not the way to build a cohesive and world beating team, it took several years to build up the 03 winning England team and likewise clearing out the likes of Thompson, Tindell, Wilko, Moody etc would then provide 4 years to really bring on the core of the current team whilst using other players to add the much needed depth.
Sacking Johnno is also not the answer, he hasn’t had the same level of coaching experience as others, going straight from playing for Leicester to the England set up, let’s not forget England did win the 6N this year.
The other problem is that the current way of supporting and using England players is detrimental at club level so the other option is to go down the Sarries route and just get a squad of South Africans (and play home games there). The benefit of using Tri Nation players is that it means it is far less likely they’ll get picked for their country and won’t unsettle the domestic competition.
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