WE NEED WOODWARD

Lawrence Dallaglio urges Martin Johnson to bring back former supremo

07/03/2009

CLIVE WOODWARD - experience

FORMER England rugby captain Lawrence Dallaglio is demanding the return of World Cup-winning coach Sir Clive Woodward.

Dallaglio insists new coach Martin Johnson is just a "rookie" and desperately needs Woodward's help.

Dally said: "Martin needs mentoring. Johnno has what it takes to become an excellent manager but he's a rookie thrown in at the deep end."

Woodward guided England to World Cup glory Down Under in 2003 but now works for the British Olympic Association.

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Johnson is a "rookie" but where's the sense in letting him cut his teeth trying to coach an international side, the RFU should have brought in oversees coaches if they thought they didn't have enough home grown talent. There are plenty of coaches in the premiership who would have made a better job of it than johnson. He was a very talented player for club and country, and I am welsh and you don't know hard it is just to say that, but that does not give him the tools to prepare a relatively young side for the next world cup. He is making a bad job of it and could do with someone else's input.

By andrew.. Posted March 15 2009 at 12:10 PM.

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