Greetings!

If you're an avid rugby fan and perhaps a passionate Englishman too then you might have been as delighted as I was on Saturday to finally see England perform to their potential and out play a spirited Australian side.


Will Greenwood made some interesting comments during his analysis after the game and also in the build up to the game earlier in the week on Sky Sports rugby club. The constant theme underpinning his analysis of the England team was the importance of trust. In fact Will describes trust as "the most important thing in rugby". Coming from a man who was a part of that amazing team that won the World Cup in 2003 he knows his stuff.


This led me to dig around and I found this fantastic video snippet of Will talking to some bankers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBZLWHBC5lE. He talks about that it was not important to have the best 15 individuals in the world but it was critical to have the best units, teams within teams. He talks about how they endeavoured to do 100 things 1% better.


I found this analysis very inspiring and it led me to muse on how we manage to get the best out of trust and create teams within teams. Greenwood puts it beautifully when he said, "When you trust that your colleague is doing their job properly then you can concentrate on yours"


Perhaps it was trust in self and trust in colleagues that instinctively told Ben Young's to make a break from inside the England 5 metre line, to feed Courtney Lawes who then trusted his ability to draw 2 men and supply the pop pass to Chris Ashton who then made the scintillating break, and step inside, leaving the Australian full back for dead.


Maybe the culture of the England team is developing where they do believe in each other, from the top down and who knows, maybe we've timed it well and next World Cup in 12 months time we can take on the All Blacks and best them in their own backyard. But before I get too carried away we have Western Samoa tomorrow at Twickenham, good luck to the boys, I know that I will be watching.

If you have any thoughts or feedback please let me know, all comments are gratefully received

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