• Attack coach says Creevy’s ‘boring’ jibe is a cliche• ‘I’m sure he’s just trying to rattle us a bit,’ says GeorgeNo Rugby
World Cup would be complete without an opponent taking a potshot at England’s “boring” style at some stage. Like the first cuckoo of spring it is simply a matter of who and when and the Argentinian hooker Agustín Creevy’s pre-match comments about the “dull” English must have amused, among others, the former Wallaby winger David Campese.
Never mind that Eddie Jones’s side have so far scored 11 tries in two games and are less reliant on their rolling maul as a strike weapon than the Pumas. While parts of Creevy’s thesis seem to have been lost in translation, his remarks have not impressed England’s attack coach, Scott Wisemantel, who suggests this particular “cliche” and the truth are two different things.