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THE CHINX WAIL. TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1980.
NEW-STYLE ENGLAND RUGBY XV CAN ACHIEVE GRAND SLAM
By JOHN COTTRELL
The International Rugby Championship, the Triple Crown, the Calcutta Cup... England could win them all this season to score their second grand slam in 33 years. That is my belief after watching England's magnificent "New Look" XV trounce Wales 14-6 at Twickenhäm-their biggest points spree against the Welshmen since 1924.
Dr
the wan
He, fost but yet unproved Malcolm
11 is too early yet to forecast, have seen since victory in Paris ver the fast gathered rately every service | Phillips. and furious Frenchmen. But but one from Jeeps, high. low! Alternatively, Sharp could re-
crooked. His deceptive main at ball-back with Bisni they certainly look too hot for the Scots, with their ragged | change of pace was superb. His in the centre longside Jackon. back division,
hold at ability to make the outside Certainly this could make tu
was something of a re- powerful line of defence. Murrayfield. And I cannot see break Thein fatug at home against velation after years of forward
domination in the game. Ireland on February 13,
Luck and belillant judgment Is behind the shaping of this new England tear.
Selectors' courage
The Big Sk of the Rugby Univ hud the couraste 10 droj Peter Jackson, rated the world's bewing three-quartor to bring back last season's rejected Dekie Jeeps as explain .. aticf to play wing-forward Peter Robbins, who was out of favour last year and broke a leg on the eve of the British on tour.
Luck came in disguise when an injury forced star Dev Bls- man to drop out of the team and make way
tall, blond Richard Sharp, the outstanding By-half in the 2) England
hay.
Sharp, a 21-year-old Oxford undergraduate, made the most Bonsational England but I
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flere at last was a fly-half to give the England back chances they have long served and to make fast, open rugby a match-winning pro- position,
the de-
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But with the accent mate firmly on attack, it would be a negative move to break up the supersonio wing partner. ship of Young and Phillips. Bo I would leave out Jackson, However, there is itch to recommend replacing Weston with either Sharp or Risman. Both are just as fast; both look more elusive. Moreover, they could be switched according to the conditions of the ground. ! For rate Sharp as essentially
a firm-ground pinyer. sturdy, Inst-kicking with either fool and a past-manter at mak- The same goes for Bey Rising the insite break, should be the going Is man, who once turned down the superior when
theeavy and the game needs to be chance of a Welsh cap in hope of making the grate for kept tight. England. Outstanding on the Llona' tour, he may well have tost many international caps through the alight injury which excluded him from the match against Wales
Speed has become the new keynote of England's play. And fnt, powerful Jim Roberts on the wing flis in so well with the scheme of things that the elusive Jackson will be hard put to re- guin his place.
I cannot think of any coun- iry in the world so rich in talent behind the scrum that It could leave out such men of rugby genius as Risman. and Jackson.
Are these players too good. to waste? Should the England back division be reshuffled to Entries for the Eighth Race Meel- make room for them? ing will close as noor,
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Powerful defence
First tries
Risman,
Most important outcome of this new-style attack is that it; resulted in two tries against. Wales the first England has scored in an international cham- 'pionship match at Twickenham į
for two years.
Top jockey engaged
Seen here is 23-year-old Lester Piggot, once a boy prodigy and still the youngest of Britain's top jockeys, with the Newmarket trainer's daughter Susan Armstrong, 20, to whom he recently announced his engagement. London Express Photo,
Here's an athlete with
'too
much
heart'
By DEREK JOHN
"You've gotta have heart," says the popular song.
And it's a pretty good maxim in the tough field of modern athletics. But here's a case of an athlete with "too much heart."
The man is Gordon ("Puff Puff") Pirlo, whose great fighting qualitics, allied to his tremendous stamina and powerful stride, took him to fourth place in the Olympic 5,000 metres in 1952 and second place in 1956.
In fact, the first tries neored Piric has been given a many he ran 40 alongsach i Vladimir Kuta, reigning there by any team in that time, thorough check-up at the In under 90.31 ree-in under 50 Olymplc 5,000 und 10,000
Tries are the lifeblood of physiological laboratories at min.
metres champlon, has recently rugby and far too many In- Fribourg, Germany.
announced his retirement. And teruziionals In recent
years
verdict is that his heart is
Pirle, second to him in the have been decided with the | high-powered for his body.
shorter event, could be his shock successor ne 5,000 metre ehempları,
boot.
Erles
Now, where the going is reasonably firm, this new Eng- Various permutations come to tand promises to score many mind to allow such
and serve up the move) | (Nort 1 Ranan could be brought in at kind of fast, easy-on-the-cyc All Hongkong v Peruviana at Hong-fly-half and Shorp moveri to open rugby which last zvar Jeong Stadium, 3 p.m.
the centre in place of Mike brought France the Champlon- Weston, himself a converted fly-ship for the first time in half a hait. Jackson could replace the century.
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