Dan Cole: 'You prefer to learn your lesson now than in the World Cup'
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Dan Cole: 'You prefer to learn your lesson now than in the World Cup'
There is no hiding from horror for the modern-day rugby player.
Every match has to be revisited and dissected, however gruesome or distressing.
Some even choose to endure the pain voluntarily before a squad debrief.
So it was that prop Dan Cole, along with his Leicester front-row colleague Tom Youngs, spent a good deal of last Monday at England's base at Pennyhill Park watching the previous day's horrible 19-9 Six Nations defeat in Dublin.
Many others had returned home after the squad arrived back from Ireland in the early hours of Monday morning.
Not Cole and Youngs.
"I stayed…
Every match has to be revisited and dissected, however gruesome or distressing.
Some even choose to endure the pain voluntarily before a squad debrief.
So it was that prop Dan Cole, along with his Leicester front-row colleague Tom Youngs, spent a good deal of last Monday at England's base at Pennyhill Park watching the previous day's horrible 19-9 Six Nations defeat in Dublin.
Many others had returned home after the squad arrived back from Ireland in the early hours of Monday morning.
Not Cole and Youngs.
"I stayed…
