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'I wouldn't be releasing him, that's for sure': Chris Boyd's warning for Eddie Jones

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Northampton Saints head coach Chris Boyd has issued a hands-off warning to England boss Eddie Jones over the recruitment of Northampton assistant Sam Vesty.

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Jones is on the lookout for a new attack coach to join England’s backroom staff following the departure of the highly-regarded Scott Wisemantel.

The 49-year-old Australian has returned to his homeland after an 18-month stint with England, who he helped Jones lead to a World Cup final appearance in Japan last month.

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It is widely expected that Wisemantel will form part of the Wallabies’ coaching staff as an assistant coach to incoming head coach Dave Rennie.

The Guardian has reported that Vesty looms as a target of Jones to replace Wisemantel in the English set-up, but Boyd has responded by saying that the Saints have no intentions of releasing his right-hand man to the Rugby Football Union.

“I wouldn’t be releasing him, that’s for sure,” Boyd told The Guardian.

“I suppose everybody’s got their price if it’s about money [but] Sam Vesty’s more about job than money I think. I’m pretty sure he’s happy with what he’s doing at the moment.”

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There are many international coaching jobs that are still yet to be vacated following on from last month’s World Cup, which could impact clubs as they prepare for their respective domestic campaigns.

That’s especially the case in New Zealand, as the All Blacks are still yet to announce Steve Hansen’s successor in what’s developed into a two-horse race between All Blacks assistant Ian Foster and Crusaders head coach Scott Robertson.

Regardless of who takes the helm of the All Blacks, the implications of either coach’s appointments will be felt by Kiwi Super Rugby clubs.

Hurricanes head coach John Plumtree and Blues boss Leon MacDonald have emerged as two likely contenders to act as Foster’s assistants, meaning both franchises would have to find replacements less than two months before Super Rugby kicks-off should the ex-Chiefs coach lands the All Blacks job.

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The Crusaders would be hit similarly hard if Robertson wins the race, as both he and his assistant Jason Ryan would have to leave their Super Rugby posts, as would Hurricanes assistant Jason Holland, who is reportedly part of Robertson’s coaching team.

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Flankly 1 hour ago
'Absolute madness': Clive Woodward rips into Borthwick in wake of NZ loss

Borthwick is supposed to be the archetypical conservative coach, the guy that might not deliver a sparkling, high-risk attacking style, but whose teams execute the basics flawlessly. And that's OK, because it can be really hard to beat teams that are rock solid and consistent in the rugby equivalent of "blocking and tackling".


But this is why the performance against NZ is hard to defend. You can forgive a conservative, back-to-basics team for failing to score tons of tries, because teams like that make up for it with reliability in the simple things. They can defend well, apply territorial pressure, win the set piece battles, and take their scoring chances with metronomic goal kicking, maul tries and pick-and-go goal line attacks.


The reason why the English rugby administrators should be on high alert is not that the English team looked unable to score tries, but that they were repeatedly unable to close out a game by executing basic, coachable skills. Regardless of how they got to the point of being in control of their destiny, they did get to that point. All that was needed was to be world class at things that require more training than talent. But that training was apparently missing, and the finger has to point at the coach.


Borthwick has been in the job for nearly two years, a period that includes two 6N programs and an RWC campaign. So where are the solid foundations that he has been building?

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Nickers 1 hour ago
Scott Robertson responds to criticism over All Blacks' handling errors

Very poor understanding of what's going on and 0 ability to read. When I say playing behind the gain line you take this to mean all off-loads and site times we are playing in front of the gain line???


Every time we play a lot of rugby behind the gain line (for clarity, meaning trying to build an attack and use width without front foot ball 5m+ behind the most recent breakdown) we go backwards and turn the ball over in some way. Every time a player is tackled behind the most recent breakdown you need more and more people to clear out because your forwards have to go back around the corner, whereas opposition players can keep moving forward. Eventually you run out of either players to clear out or players to pass to and the result in a big net loss of territory and often a turnover. You may have witnessed that 20+ times in the game against England. This is a particularly dumb idea inside your own 40m which is where, for some reason, we are most likely to employ it.


The very best ABs teams never built an identity around attacking from poor positions. The DC era team was known for being the team that kicked the most. To engineer field position and apply pressure, and create broken play to counter attack. This current team is not differentiating between when a defence has lost it's structure and there are opportunities, and when they are completely set and there is nothing on. The reason they are going for 30 minute + periods in every game without scoring a single point, even against Japan and a poor Australian team, is because they are playing most of their rugby on the back foot in the wrong half.

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