What the Rugby World Cup means for the Six Nations and Rugby Championship | Paul Rees

Nations such as England and Wales make much of their academy systems but are they producing players learning through their on-field experiences in their formative years or clones who become used to being told what to do?Alex Cuthbert was torn in two by Duane Vermeulen and Fourie du Preez five minutes from the end of Wales’s quarter-final against South Africa at Twickenham and then torn to shreds on social media for dumping his side out of the World Cup through what, put in politer terms, was viewed as a schoolboy blunder. Continue reading...