Clive Woodward
Clive Woodward
Sir Clive Ronald Woodward OBEis an English former rugby union player and coach. He was coach of the England team from 1997 to 2004, managing them to victory in the 2003 Rugby World Cup. He also coached the 2005 British and Irish Lions tour to New Zealand, losing the test series 3-0 ...
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I've announced a strong team with over 300 caps between them,
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We set out to be the No. 1 team in the world and the only time you can say that is when you have the World Cup sitting here with you, ... I hope it kicks on to a really golden era for English rugby.
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Winning the World Cup was the worst thing that ever happened to the England team.
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Our success has not been a continual series of victories. We have had a number of devastating setbacks; how these are handled is the making of a great team... winning does not happen in straight lines.
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This is an outstanding team for the tour and will be a tremendous opportunity for some other players to step up to the mark,
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We made the change for the France game but playing Australia it's right to go back to Tindall. He is a key part of our team and has been for a long time.
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George is clearly in charge of the first team and my role is the whole training ground environment. I've got ambitions in management but that is at least two or three years away. I feel I am more than qualified to help individual players, not just the first team.
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All his caps for England have been earned on merit. On behalf of the England team I'd like to wish him every success in the future.
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It would be good to have Wilkinson there if he's at his best,
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We have a huge amount of respect for this team, even more so after they just demolished the All Blacks last week, and that wasn't even a close game.
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Martin and I spoke earlier this month about his decision. I made it clear during the Rugby World Cup that I would have liked him to captain England in our defense of the Grand Slam, but I fully support his decision.
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I was going nuts. We kept putting ourselves in trouble, making error after error. But who cares what I thought? We have won the World Cup.
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We made errors, we made mistakes and we've got to fix it very, very quickly and I think this sends the right message to the whole squad.
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We've experienced these types of games in the last few years and the players always responded well.