| Re: How do you rate England?
It's only the media that ever think we're going to win tournos. The England fans tend to think we're only going to get to the last eight then crash and burn be it Euros or World Cup. That's probably where we are to be honest, as long as we avoid someone particularly good, we'll make the quarters and then go out to the first really decent team we meet.
It's entrenched in the players psyche at international level as well now, they don't truly believe in themselves enough that they will go on further than that, because to do so you have to mentally tough and hardened.
We can run all day and battle, but we don't have the technique in the hot conditions that tournos inevitably have and we also have too many areas in our squad where, the first choice is a good player, but the cover players are just about Premiership standard. |