Let’s give rugby union its identity back and stop copying the All Blacks

Scotland’s World Cup clash with Samoa showed that countries can play to their historic strengths and tap into the DNA of a nation. It’s not all about the power game, as Wales found to their costThe Brave Hearts of Scotland had to defeat Manu Samoa to go one better than 2011 and make the knock-out stage and, at last, we had a marked contrast in gameplans, showing there are different ways of playing rugby union. The all-out attack of Samoa was the opposite of the direct, set-piece dominant, no mistakes approach of Scotland.Samoa, living off scraps and regains from excellently executed restarts b…