The week starts with a look back and how Martin Johnson has gone from turmoil to vindication, questions whether South Africa is in decline, most influential people in rugby and more in Monday's edition of What the Papers say.
The week starts with a look back and how Martin Johnson has gone from turmoil to vindication, questions whether South Africa is in decline, most influential people in rugby and more in Monday's edition of What the Papers say.
Monday, November 22
From turmoil to vindication - The Guardian - Martin Johnson has guided England to what now seems a genuine revival
The beauty of youth has an ugly side too - The Independent - From the Front Row: The fortnight of cup games gave our youngsters a chance and now they won't back down in training
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England are buzzing and we want to end series in style - The Telegraph - They’re a real handful these Samoans. There I was, thinking they’d done their worst in making life damn difficult for us at Twickenham, when up they get in the post-match function and put us to shame with a wonderful medley of Polynesian songs. They stripped to the waist and away they went, swaying and singing.
Most influential people in rugby? - Scrum.com - The latest Rugby Expo - a meeting of rugby business minds - was staged in London earlier this week with some of the sport's leading players - largely off-the-field - dropping in to share their wisdom with each other.
England pass test - BBC - Ben Dirs on why a hard-fought win over Samoa is a good lesson for England
Struggling South Africa bear all of the hallmarks of a team in steep decline - The Telegraph - The ultimate arbiter is the scoreboard but it is in sifting through the footnotes that selectors and coaches distinguish themselves and particularly how they read the runes of the ruins. What, for example, do South Africa take out of their dire loss to a courageous, but hardly all-conquering Scotland side?
John Beattie's blog - BBC - "Scotland achieved a more basic go-forward game and it worked"
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