Andy Robinson
Andy Robinson
Richard Andrew 'Andy' Robinson OBEis an English rugby union coach and retired player. He is the current Director of Rugby at Bristol Rugby. He is the former head coach of Scotland and England...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth3 April 1964
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Jason is an outstanding member of the England team who has led by example for the three years he has been playing international rugby union,
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It's been hard to try and force my way into the team, so it was nice to get a start,
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No, it would not. I'm not trying to undermine Martin in any way, shape or form. He's the captain and a very strong one. We needed impetus in Scotland and the bench has made an impact in other games.
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Everybody will be reviewed, it is important that we have that honesty.
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It is only 48 hours since (Stevens) played, and 24 hours for the Wasps boys. We've got to see how they recovered in that time. Normally with injuries, we should know in 24 hours if they are going to be fit or not.
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Apart from the injury we've got with Josh, I'm not really going to make any changes. We must focus on beating Italy because everything will be wasted if we don't put another big performance in. Rome is a tough place to go and Italy are always hard to play against.
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I thought the preparation for the autumn was spot-on. We are asking Martin (Corry) and the team to play at their very best, and we want to give them every opportunity to do that.
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I very much hope we score some early points and get the thing won in the first 20 minutes, as we have on previous occasions. But we all understand we're facing a great battle here. If we're sloppy at the set pieces, give away penalties and allow the Italians to establish a foothold in the game, we may find ourselves having to use our bench players to win, which is not a position in which we tend to find ourselves against these opponents.
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There are a lot of upset and distraught people in the squad, as are the public, and rightly so.
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With a couple of exceptions, I can picture the team running out against Australia,
balance move
We can now move forward. There's always more to come. The balance was good, as was the ambition.
matt situation
We will be monitoring the situation with Matt overnight.
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We created eight opportunities but didn't take them. It is something to be looked at. We were one pass away from scoring a number of tries but we are creating scoring opportunities.
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We know that Italy is a good team and we respect it. It will be important to win because we are playing on the road. There were no away wins in the first round of the competition.