Stuart Lancaster, the head coach of the England Rugby Team reflected on completing one year in charge of the national side, stating that the team is in a far better condition at this moment that it was just one year back. The English rugby union opted for the relatively inexperienced coach to lead the team out of their disastrous Rugby World Cup campaign in 2011 where they were knocked out in the quarter finals.
Lancaster went in to the Six Nations Championship 2012 with single capped Chris Robshaw as the leader of the team and finished second in the tournament and built on that success with a win against the world champions New Zealand in November. Speaking on completing a year in charge of the England Rugby Team, Lancaster stated that at this point last year, they were sitting on the back of a disastrous Rugby World Cup campaign with 15 newly capped players as well as a new captain and the key at that time was getting the culture absolutely spot on.
Lancaster went on to state that although the team has not won each and every game, it hasn’t been smashed in any game either. He added that the team is cultured in a way now so as to take advantage of that sensational win against the All Blacks and build on that success to achieve the consistency required to succeed at the very top level and mentioned that there is absolutely no better place to achieve that than in the Six Nations Championship.
After taking over the England Rugby Team, Lancaster has gone for youth instead of experience and he has seen his young players reward his faith in them and the big boss man is now looking for his charges to lead the team to glory.