THE SECRET PLAYER

“Sometimes, no matter what you do, it’s like they have your playbook”

I REMEMBER playing for one team where, from the very first defensive sessions on a Monday or Tuesday, the coach would put mug shots up on the screen of the opposition’s star players that we’d have to obliterate in order to win the gain-line at the weekend.

Those important players would then be ‘replicated’ during the week, with some of our