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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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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One of the major successes of the tournament so far has been the refereeing, because I can't recall many people talking about it. There have been very few bad incidents, hardly any citing offenses and (Watson's) looking forward to tomorrow's game and so are we.
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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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You don't get lucky in sport.
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Captain and coach must be seen to be banging the same drum.
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'Concentrate on measuring performance and winning will take care of itself'. That is a brilliant excuse for coming second...
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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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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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Paul is the best player and I am mindful we've had no training time at all since the World Cup. To throw in Ollie Barkley or Alex King with no preparation would be a big call, especially playing away from home.
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My resignation has been accepted. I was happy to stay for the tests in the autumn but it was agreed that it would make for a smoother transition of responsibility if I withdrew my position with immediate effect,
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I saw the same tapes that the citing commission would have seen and to me there was plenty of evidence,
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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.