A few of us have been chatting the opposite day with Rob Baxter, Exeter Chief’s director of rugby, concerning the hardest problem in rugby. All of us most likely have a private opinion on the topic: bodily making an attempt to cease a large onrushing ahead two metres from your individual line, say, or having to kick a last-minute profitable penalty into the enamel of a Galway gale from 50 metres.
Baxter, although, was speaking extra usually and coming on the query from a seasoned coach’s perspective. In his opinion essentially the most tough obstacles to beat are sometimes psychological. Not least the artwork of making ready to face…