Shaun Edwards set for sudden, shock exit from France team

Would love Shaun to come back to Wales to help Sean L to get our Women up to standard of English ladies 😁

Did Shaun get a French letter ?

We'll have him! Lord has left the building so the timing couldn't be better..

French will always blame the rosbif for any failing.

RFU get your finger out and get him in the England setup! Anyone is an improvement on Wigglesworth but Edwards is a world class coach who brings a winning mentality to teams. If he becomes available and the RFU don’t act then it’s further evidence of their incompetence and negligence

Sean Edwards .. or Richard Wigglesworth .. hmm .. 🤔

Leinster need Shaun Edwards

“So there is now likely to be a massive push for the RFU to get the 59-year-old onto Steve Borthwick’s coaching staff in any capacity before the 2027 World Cup in Australia, despite Richard Wigglesworth currently overseeing their defensive operation.”

Despite? Or because?

The only problem with this, is what would happen to the rest of the coaching team? England already have 2 great defence coaches (McGuigan and Sinfield) and while it might make most sense to swap Wigglesworth and Sinfield round, its not clear it would work to just add in another coach.

Where England might benefit from more expertise is in the forwards. The lineout isn’t working well, so the combination of Borthwick and el-Abd probably needs fixing. Adding Cheika as D.O.R. would free up some of Borthwick’s time to play a more hands on role, or adding James Craig or Geoff Parling or whoever coaches the lineout at Britol (I assume Chris Morgan?) would free up el-Abd to spend more time working on the breakdown, which also seems not to be working.

Well if this is true then England may want to take advantage if he becomes available as our defence has been a clusterfuck since WW took charge of it.

No shock, there has been lots of talk he hasn’t really had an influence in the last 12 months or so with the team. He has done a brilliant job in his tenure and now it’s time to move on with a different direction.

Shock? No real surprise here. France’s D was getting weaker, even with the changes in how rugby is played and how many tries are being scored for a year or 2.

He was the perfect D coach to implement the depossession style of play that made France be arguably the best team in the world in 2022. Since that moment, rules have changed and France tried to adapt in 2023, but it wasn’t enough.

Edwards seemed a bit lost since the start of the new WC cycle, and his messages, not so easy to understand when you watch the videos - although fair play to him for trying to speak French - began to get lost in the maze. After 6 years, it was already a lot.

He’s been praised for what he did with France, probably a tad too much by British media - that’s how it goes, trying to appropriate part of the success through nationality - and now he’ll be on the market.

Will he be able to recycle his ideas or start fresh? Easier in an English speaking nation.

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