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Rennie fuming with Cockerill as tensions mount in Scotland

Cockerill and Rennie

Edinburgh head coach Richard Cockerill, who is notorious for his plain-spoken approach, seems to have earned the ire of his Glasgow Warriors counterpart Dave Rennie, after publicly declaring an interest in one of Rennie’s players earlier this month.

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The Englishman had previously stated that he would be keen to add one of George Horne, Ali Price or Henry Pyrgos to his stock of scrum-halves, with all three Scotland internationals and all three currently contracted at Glasgow.

With Sam Hidalgo-Clyne moving to the Scarlets next season, Edinburgh will be forced to rely heavily on Sean Kennedy and Nathan Fowles at nine, with academy scrum-half Charlie Shiel also pushing for more playing time.

Cockerill’s desire to add more competition at scrum-half is understandable, but it has not gone down well with Rennie, whose side are currently preparing for their Guinness PRO14 semi-final against the Scarlets.

Speaking ahead of the Friday night fixture, Rennie stated that “He [Cockerill] would be better talking to us rather than the media.”

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“We haven’t heard anything. They are all contracted, signed with us. The big thing is that they want to be here.”

With both sides owned by the Scottish Rugby Union, transfers between the two sides are commonplace, but they do not usually take place when players are still under contract and if one of the three Glasgow scrum-halves were to make the move to the capital, it would require interference from the SRU, something which Cockerill had previously hinted at.

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Ahead of Edinburgh’s fixture with Munster earlier this month, the former Leicester Tigers director of rugby said “there is no point having three national nines in one team. However, those are discussions that are in process.”

The irony will not be lost on some that Cockerill comes from the Aviva Premiership, where clubs are independently-owned and can store as much talent – within the bounds of the salary cap – as they want, whilst Rennie arrived last year from New Zealand, where a more cooperative union-owned team system is in place, just as it is in Scotland.

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JW 3 hours ago
How 'misunderstood' Rassie Erasmus is rolling back the clock

The All Blacks have definitely exchanged physicality for their running rugby, tiring teams out in the last 10 minutes type approach, over the last decade.


Hell they were the ones getting tired in South Africa last year.


Previously, we had always had to get ourselves pumped up to match the SB. Our forwards would need to punch above their weight. There’s been no such feeling or talk like that for a decade. We’re happy that we can go toe to toe all day everyday now. I suggest Ireland still need to do that though.


Yes I’m not familiar with those games, or the way you’d played them, you and Graham were discussing, but I’d say the players I’ve seen recently certainly do have those capabilities (to outplay/skill NZ or France). Really though I think we both acknowledging the same thing, the capaticity to play multiple ways, because you have the most well rounded player types.


So I fully endorse unlocking that further. Ireland became a tricky bunch for sure. You may not have heard me champion their play when it first started coming out, by I credited them/Lancaster, as encompasing a lot of the great backline/phase play trickery I’d become accustomed to naturally seeing, through evolution, from all ages in New Zealand. He put a plan together about how/when to cut/when to loop/when to skip. Players I grew up with, well even myself of course, we just did those things based on what we see, and Lancaster put that together as a package for people who don’t.. have such DNA, or ‘IP’. I’ve not seen any other team do it with such precision, or make it look so natural as they did. They’ve lost it now of course (as had NZ already), but my point would be that you can also do you’re own thing. For instance you could go to grubbers instead of territory kicks, low fast guys, even the tall lanky Fassi’ are supreme at reading and catching a bouncing ball. Simply by not going to your lineout strength, you can put immense attacking pressure through space and speed for example. Brown got the use of those athletes going in the wide channels, while still looking for say someone who was as good as Kieran Read to really unlock that threat. But anyway, maybe I misconstrued what you wanted the team to do, but I just think there are, as youve said about the past, ways SA can play. I wouldn’t be worried about anything too fancy, but yes, they say defence wins match’s but really that’s just because attack is the hardest thing to get right. So if you can get it right, yes, you do almost become unbeatable. Like I said I couldn’t see going as far as to play like a “Brazil” being a “trick” to get over the mental barrier of expectation, not with SA’s psyche. In tsaying that though I’m thinking to myself, in terms of clamming up in big games, Irelands playbook approach would be better than instinct. That’s because you need that ‘brazilian’ to play on instinct, and I think the game means too much to us for that, and maybe that’s how Ireland was able to keep up it’s threat in those big games, all everyone simply had to do with stick the playbook.


Even without winning WCs NZ has been able to feel like it was still on top, and playing with some audacious flair, as in just backing yourself to beat these two players in front of me that results in a breakdown field which wins you the game, requires that sort of knowledge that you are the best, that level of confidence. That’s an advantage NZ has had to keep that style going over the decades. The acid test has come on, there is a desire their from from Razor to regain it, now to be able to play that way when doubts set in.

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