{"id":290029,"date":"2023-09-06T22:36:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T22:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allmysportsnews.com\/?p=290029"},"modified":"2023-09-06T22:36:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T22:36:52","slug":"shaun-edwards-pressure-before-all-blacks-clash-is-a-privilege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allmysportsnews.com\/rugby-union\/shaun-edwards-pressure-before-all-blacks-clash-is-a-privilege\/","title":{"rendered":"SHAUN EDWARDS: Pressure before All Blacks clash is a privilege"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>SHAUN EDWARDS: The pressure on France before our All Blacks clash is a privilege and I love it! It&#8217;s now business time and this is what we live for&#8230; hopefully I&#8217;ll be buying a bottle again!<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Shaun Edwards, France&#8217;s defence coach, is relishing their World Cup opener\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>They will begin their campaign against New Zealand on home turf on Friday\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Edwards has provided fascinating insight into the French team&#8217;s preparations\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Latest Rugby World Cup 2023 news, including fixtures, live scores and results<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We&#8217;ve spent a huge amount of time preparing for this World Cup and now it&#8217;s business time.<\/p>\n<p>I can feel the buzz wherever we go. There are fans waiting for autographs outside the hotel and the lads&#8217; faces are on billboards all over town. I love it. We&#8217;re getting police escorts everywhere and you hear people shouting &#8216;Allez les Bleus&#8217;. These are the times we live for.<\/p>\n<p>We had a meeting at the start of the week and Fabien Galthie told the players that New Zealand have never lost a pool game in the World Cup. It felt like a bit of a challenge and you could see the focus on the players&#8217; faces. It set the tone. The bigger the challenge, the more our players accept it.<\/p>\n<p>The intensity has lifted. Fabien gave the guys five days off last week to go back to their families and switch off. It&#8217;s all about peaking at the right time, which is on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s my first time being involved in a &#8216;home&#8217; World Cup and I can&#8217;t wait to get going. I love the pressure of it. The worst part of my life was when I retired from rugby and lost that feeling. I didn&#8217;t have a job for a year and a half. I love the pressure we&#8217;re feeling now. It&#8217;s a privilege.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/06\/20\/75137713-12488827-image-a-70_1694029063124.jpg\" height=\"432\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>France&#8217;s defence coach Shaun Edwards has insisted the team are ready for the World Cup<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/06\/20\/75137931-12488827-image-a-71_1694029314998.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Intensity in the French camp has lifted ahead of their opener against New Zealand this week<\/p>\n<p>My daughters are excited for the opening ceremony but I won&#8217;t be paying it a drop of attention. I&#8217;ll be in the changing room, where things will be heating up. The players come back in from the warm-up and the intensity rises. At first there&#8217;s very little noise. That silence is one of my favourite moments. It&#8217;s intense and it gives you goosebumps.<\/p>\n<p>The anthem will be emotional and you have to remove yourself from that as a coach. You have to be ready to make clear decisions.<\/p>\n<p>I always remember when Wales played England in 2013. I&#8217;d been holding tackle bags on the pitch, some big hits flying in, and I was the last one up to the coaching box. I walked in and was so pumped up by the intensity and the noise that I wanted to go out and play. I was acting strange. Rob Howley said: &#8216;Shaun, what&#8217;s up, calm down, just calm down&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learnt that you have to keep cool and remind the players of their roles and responsibilities. New Zealand were the dominant team in the Rugby Championship and it&#8217;s going to be a massive challenge. Everybody knows about their counter-attack.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve got an all-round game. Since Joe Schmidt joined they&#8217;ve become a bit more structured in the opposition 22. Historically the southern hemisphere teams win the World Cup so us in the north need to pull our socks up.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/06\/20\/75137907-12488827-image-a-72_1694029319944.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The All Blacks boast an all-round game and will present a significant challenge for France<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/06\/20\/75137943-12488827-image-a-73_1694029350554.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Antoine Dupont (right) is unfazed, like a good poker player, and is one of the world&#8217;s best<\/p>\n<p>This French team are built in Fabien&#8217;s image. He&#8217;s a pretty cool guy and so are the team. They don&#8217;t get flustered. We turn up to games wearing a suit and tie with white trainers. That&#8217;s Fabien&#8217;s decision. If we want to appeal to young people we can&#8217;t turn up in dodgy old shoes. It&#8217;s all part of getting eyes on the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone asks me what Antoine Dupont&#8217;s like &#8211; he&#8217;s like a good poker player. Nothing fazes him. He&#8217;s one of the best players in the world, captain of the national team and came through all the junior levels. He&#8217;s an icon.<\/p>\n<p>I worked with a lot of magnificent scrum-halves in Wales. Howley was absolutely brilliant at controlling a game, Mike Phillips was so physical and Gareth Davies was one of the best defensive readers I ever coached. Antoine is a combination of all three.<\/p>\n<p>He plays a huge role in attack and defence, and on Friday night our defensive leaders really need to step up. I&#8217;ve lost three of my best defensive players in Paul Willemse, Jon Danty and Romain Ntamack. I&#8217;m not going to pretend I&#8217;m pleased about it. It&#8217;s hurt us but we have to adapt.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever we win a Test match I go out and buy a bottle for the best defensive player. The lads aren&#8217;t skint so it has to be high-end. They know a good bottle of champagne. When we were playing for the Grand Slam I bought a bottle of Dom Perignon. Maybe I&#8217;ll go for Cristal this time. Fingers crossed I&#8217;ll be visiting the bottle shop on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<h3>Three picks to light up the world<\/h3>\n<p><span>Johnny Sexton (Ireland)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>What a player. One of the greatest I&#8217;ve ever seen. It&#8217;s his swansong but he still controls the game so well and sees everything on the pitch. Johnny just makes teams tick and he&#8217;ll be a brilliant coach if he chooses to be.<\/p>\n<p><span>Ellis Genge (England)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The only problem with props is they only play 50 minutes. I&#8217;ve got a lot of respect for Ellis, I love the way he carries himself. It sets an emotional intensity. He&#8217;s a tough guy who runs with the ball very well.<\/p>\n<p><span>Mark Nawaqanitawase (Australia)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Before our game against Australia, I told our players that he&#8217;s their version of Damian Penaud, just not quite as crazy! Mark is a marvellous winger. They&#8217;re both strong with the ability to create something from nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/rugbyunion\/article-12488827\/SHAUN-EDWARDS-pressure-France-Blacks-privilege.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHAUN EDWARDS: The pressure on France before our All Blacks clash is a privilege and I love it! 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