{"id":24830,"date":"2025-01-09T14:26:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T14:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/six-nations-england-defence-shift-follows-trend-alex-sanderson\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T14:26:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T14:26:05","slug":"six-nations-england-defence-shift-follows-trend-alex-sanderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/six-nations-england-defence-shift-follows-trend-alex-sanderson\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Nations: England defence shift follows trend \u2013 Alex Sanderson"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Sale coach Alex Sanderson says most coaches find an all-out blitz defence is too easily unpicked after it was reported that England will ditch the tactic for the Six Nations.<\/b><\/p>\n

England’s ultra-aggressive line speed on their summer tour of New Zealand restricted the All Blacks to four tries in their two Tests.<\/p>\n

However, defence coach Felix Jones departed shortly after and England were more porous in the autumn, conceding an average of four tries a game in their defeats by New Zealand, Australia and South Africa.<\/p>\n

The Daily Mail report, external<\/span><\/a> that Jones’ successor, Joe El-Abd, will use a pre-tournament training camp in Girona to change their tactics, with tacklers adopting a more cautious, but coordinated approach.<\/p>\n

Sanderson ran Saracens’ defence before taking the top job at Sale, who conceded the joint fewest tries in last season’s Premiership. <\/p>\n

“I think even South Africa, who were known for it, have come off it a little bit,” he said of the world champions’ commitment to blitzing attacks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Sale coach Alex Sanderson says most coaches find an all-out blitz defence is too easily unpicked after it was reported that England will ditch the tactic for the Six Nations. England’s ultra-aggressive line speed on their summer tour of New Zealand restricted the All Blacks to four tries in their two Tests. However, defence coach […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24832,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24830\/revisions\/24832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}