jonh wrote:Did you fail to see the skills of the England team in the World Cup?
Union teams can generally take the ball to the line pass or take contact, we now seem incapable of both these skills let alone draw a man or create space for a player which is so much harder in union.
The game needs a major kick in the booty, or it will become extinct.
england and france were the two teams that performed worst at the world cup. some of the rugby played by australia, new zealand, samoa, fiji, ireland was great.