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<blockquote data-quote="Ragey Erasmus" data-source="post: 1213206" data-attributes="member: 56232">It&#039;s chicken and egg. Really a national coach shouldn&#039;t be trying to pick a team and set targets based on what they want and having the whole system changed to fix that, they should be able to get the best out of what they have. The systems are too slow to respond to produce the sort of a players a coach wants if they aren&#039;t already in the pipeline.I&#039;m of the opinion that club coaches can operate on having a gameplan and then selecting and building a team around that. National coaches are more limited in all aspects. They should identify the talent available, the combinations available and see what they can do with what&#039;s available to get them to gel as a team as quickly as possible.Building a national side around certain players who basically don&#039;t exist within your selection pool is pointless. I think it&#039;s part of the reason England have consistently failed to select a 12 at 12 and why we struggled so long to replace the Tuilagi/Vunipola holes that were left when they started getting injured. We had a gameplan for players who weren&#039;t available.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ragey Erasmus, post: 1213206, member: 56232"] It's chicken and egg. Really a national coach shouldn't be trying to pick a team and set targets based on what they want and having the whole system changed to fix that, they should be able to get the best out of what they have. The systems are too slow to respond to produce the sort of a players a coach wants if they aren't already in the pipeline. I'm of the opinion that club coaches can operate on having a gameplan and then selecting and building a team around that. National coaches are more limited in all aspects. They should identify the talent available, the combinations available and see what they can do with what's available to get them to gel as a team as quickly as possible. Building a national side around certain players who basically don't exist within your selection pool is pointless. I think it's part of the reason England have consistently failed to select a 12 at 12 and why we struggled so long to replace the Tuilagi/Vunipola holes that were left when they started getting injured. We had a gameplan for players who weren't available. [/QUOTE]

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