Negative thinking is at the root of rugby’s woes but some teams are fighting back according to Stuart Barnes in the Sunday Times.
"The try-count and the quality of rugby in the Tri-Nations, that annual benchmark of international excellence, have plummeted. Coaches worldwide have suffered from a state somewhere between mass hypnosis and hysteria. Even the All Blacks, with their fearsome firepower behind the scrum, followed the trend of obsessive kicking and awaited the other side’s errors instead of utilising their lightning back line.
"But last week there was more than a chink of light. A bloody great hole was blown in the theory that the current laws alone have killed the game. New Zealand cut France to pieces with surgical precision and Matt Giteau carved holes in Wales and the reputation of their defensive guru, Shaun Edwards."
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