{"id":1215,"date":"2009-11-23T06:37:01","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T12:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2011-01-31T19:09:56","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T17:09:56","slug":"martin-johnson-to-defend-coaching-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/martin-johnson-to-defend-coaching-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Johnson to defend coaching staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1217\" title=\"Martin-Johnson\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Martin-Johnson1.jpg\" alt=\"Martin-Johnson\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Martin-Johnson1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Martin-Johnson1-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Martin-Johnson1-280x186.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>Martin Johnson will fiercely defend his coaching team at the inquiry into England\u2019s  miserable autumn. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rob Andrew will lead an RFU probe after England missed another opportunity to show they have made progress under the coaching leadership of World Cup-winning captain Johnno. Saturday\u2019s much-improved effort against a mediocre All Blacks side  was at least a step forward from the shocking display in the 16-9 win against Argentina seven days earlier.<\/p>\n<p>But just one try in three matches at Twickenham suggests England are still desperately searching for the missing  ingredient to unlock the best defences.<\/p>\n<p>With Johnson guaranteed to take the  side to the 2011 World Cup, it will be his coaching team who come in for the closest scrutiny in Andrew\u2019s review.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Forwards coach John Wells was heavily criticised last week by former England star Josh Lewsey, who branded his record \u201cawful\u201d. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And attack coach Brian Smith, whose coaching philosophy is at odds with Wells\u2019, is also under pressure following a string of toothless displays.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the urge for change, though, Johnson intends to stick by his back-room team for next year\u2019s Six Nations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI am very happy with the coaching staff considering what they have been through this week, I thought they did a brilliant job. That will be my coaching team for the Six Nations. Absolutely. I am proud of the effort the players put in all week and everything the coaches have done. It has been a tough week with all the criticism flying around but I thought we came out and played. I think as a group we have gone forward. The way the guys handled themselves this week has been tremendous.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The savage injury list has played a part in England\u2019s poor performances but Johnson has repeatedly refused to use that as an  excuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Johnson will fiercely defend his coaching team at the inquiry into England\u2019s miserable autumn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[1957,319,1962,1955,1960,1959,1958,1961,699,1952,1954,1953,1878,1956],"class_list":["post-1215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rugby","tag-all-blacks","tag-argentina","tag-brian-smith","tag-england","tag-england-star-josh-lewsey","tag-john-wells","tag-johnson","tag-josh-lewsey","tag-martin-johnson","tag-martin-johnson-coaching-team","tag-rfu","tag-rob-andrew","tag-rugby-union","tag-rugby-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}