#DEFENCE COACH: Shaun Edwards
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Fans have had to watch the former England rugby league captain won trophies galore with Wales and France, becoming the highest rated defence coach in the world.
Edwards recently revealed the last time he was offered a role with the men in white was way back in 2006.
“You’d have to be asked first,” Edwards told the BT Rugby Tonight panel.
“Yes, in 2006, when Mr Robinson was in charge,” said Edwards when asked he had be asked to join England. “But it was a couple of years after my brother had died, tragically died in a car crash.
“I asked my mother, who passed away herself last year, I said ‘do you think I’m ready, mum?’ Because a bit of downtime, I was head coach at Wasps at the time, super busy, every day, minutes taken up, and she said ‘I don’t think you’re ready’. And it was the right decision.”