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Should England expect to win Grand Slams?
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<blockquote data-quote="Peat" data-source="post: 713746" data-attributes="member: 42330"><p>In fairness, there is more to player development than international duty, both at age grades and senior level. Nothing else apart, it's just a finite part of a player's life; they spend far more with their clubs. If Tuilagi, to pick an example, is to develop a distributing game at international level, that probably can't happen without Leicester. Yes, you need international experience, and yes, you often see players make big improvements after being on international duty. But the clubs play a massive part.</p><p></p><p>And we have bigger problems in player development than too many players and not enough international opportunities, too much chopping and changing and not enough correct talent identification. We have a real issue, imo, in that the Premiership simply doesn't play its part. We see too many promising players with big technical flaws - too many players with decision making flaws - too many players who get frail under pressure. We are far from alone there, but it seems particularly problematic here.</p><p></p><p>And I'm not sure why it is. Maybe it's because we place too much emphasis on academy players attained physical maturity quickly and not enough on them attaining the right skillsets, technically and mentally. Maybe it's because we don't have as many internationals and strong teams scattered through our league. Maybe its because we play a style of rugby that differs too much from the rest of Europe on key areas (such as the breakdown). Maybe it's the short-termism and ugly rugby forced by relegation, or the downsides of sharing our sporting landscape with genuine contention for our collision merchant prospects, or we don't produce enough good English coaches or any combination of the above and a million and one other things. But if the international team - the tip of the pyramid - is not where it should be, you look down the rest of the pyramid for cracks. And I think English rugby has plenty.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Peat, post: 713746, member: 42330"] In fairness, there is more to player development than international duty, both at age grades and senior level. Nothing else apart, it's just a finite part of a player's life; they spend far more with their clubs. If Tuilagi, to pick an example, is to develop a distributing game at international level, that probably can't happen without Leicester. Yes, you need international experience, and yes, you often see players make big improvements after being on international duty. But the clubs play a massive part. And we have bigger problems in player development than too many players and not enough international opportunities, too much chopping and changing and not enough correct talent identification. We have a real issue, imo, in that the Premiership simply doesn't play its part. We see too many promising players with big technical flaws - too many players with decision making flaws - too many players who get frail under pressure. We are far from alone there, but it seems particularly problematic here. And I'm not sure why it is. Maybe it's because we place too much emphasis on academy players attained physical maturity quickly and not enough on them attaining the right skillsets, technically and mentally. Maybe it's because we don't have as many internationals and strong teams scattered through our league. Maybe its because we play a style of rugby that differs too much from the rest of Europe on key areas (such as the breakdown). Maybe it's the short-termism and ugly rugby forced by relegation, or the downsides of sharing our sporting landscape with genuine contention for our collision merchant prospects, or we don't produce enough good English coaches or any combination of the above and a million and one other things. But if the international team - the tip of the pyramid - is not where it should be, you look down the rest of the pyramid for cracks. And I think English rugby has plenty. [/QUOTE]
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