The Breakdown | Wayne Pivac needs to shed Mr Nice Guy image if Wales are to prosper

Wales need to evolve after the tactical austerity of the Gatland era but must keep the abrasiveness that brought successLeo Durocher was a baseball coach who made Eddie Jones look like the what-hoing Bertie Wooster. Known as Leo the Lip, he managed the Brooklyn Dodgers after the second world war and is attributed with the saying “nice guys finish last”.He was talking to reporters in 1946 about the New York Giants and their manager, Mel Ott, as they watched the side practise. Asked by one why he never acted as a nice guy, Durocher spat back: “Do you know a nicer guy than Mel Ott? Or any of the …

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