The Daily Telegraph's Mick Cleary looks at the revolution England boss Stuart Lancaster is currently undertaking.
"In admitting on Wednesday that there was a perception that elite rugby players were self-obsessed party animals, England head coach Stuart Lancaster pledged to flush away all pretensions of grandeur by siting his pre-Six Nations camp in the back-to-basics surroundings of the club at which he coaches under-11s mini-rugby on a Sunday morning in Leeds.
The West Park club, some 10 miles north of Leeds, play their rugby in Yorkshire Division Two. The setting is a far cry from England’s usual training HQ set in the country-house surroundings of Pennyhill Park in 123 acres of rolling parkland in Surrey, and has even less in common with the warm-weather site on the Algarve which England used to prepare for last year’s Six Nations.
West Park run four sides and although their 42-acre site has been impressively redeveloped in recent years, they abide by classic Yorkshire virtues of graft and humility. “Owt for nowt”, as Lancaster put it recently, and will be just the tonic needed to right the badly-listing World Cup ship."
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