Wibble Rugby: The Champions: England 2003 | The Innovators and Total Rugby

On the 22nd of November 2003, England took to the field to vie for the World Cup title with World Champions Australia.
100 minutes later, Mike Catt was kicking the ball off the field to cement Englands' name on the Web Ellis Trophy. This accomplishment was the result of 6 years of planning, hard work, innovation and revolution by the England team, led by their forward thinking Coach: Clive Woodward.
Today, in our first episode of the Champions Series, we show you exactly how they did it. We break down their Mindset and change in culture; their set piece philosophies and their specialist attacking plays, and lastly, the list of attacking patterns they used to dominate and exhaust their opposition.
Below, you can see the full breakdown of the England Documentary, with the chapters, and headers to navigate through:
0:00: Intro
06:06: Chapter 1| Part 1: Changing Culture: The Transformation
- 08:53 - Changing Mindset: Making Winners
- 14:17 - Auftragstaktik
- 19:21 - Energy Sappers vs Energisers
- 21:03 - The Truly Elite Environment
22:13: Chapter 1 | Part 2: Establishing Professionalism: Specialists and Marginal Gains
- 23:06 - Getting the right people
- 24:22 - Director of Rugby
- 27:00 - Kaizen and Marginal Gains
32:32: Chapter 1 | Part 3: Establishing Total Rugby: Re-learning to play
- 34:02 - Winning Rugby takes many forms
- 35:55 - Back Three as the 1st receivers
- 38:02 - Forwards at 1st receiver
- 39:04 - Wing Forwards and their role
40:27: Chapter 2 | Part 1: The Set Piece: The Platform
- 41:09 - The Set Piece is an ATTACK
- 41:54 - Lineout Platform
- 42:39 - Varying the point of ATTACK
43:18: Chapter 3 | Part 1: ATTACK off Set Piece: Englands' Plays
- 44:02 - Englands' Attacking Ethos
- 44:28 - Set Piece Move Philosophy
- 45:46 - The Drifter
- 53:05 - The Split Miss/ Split Hit
- 55:02 - Missile Carry
- 57:06 - World Class
- 58:16 - 2nd Phase D2 "Dallaglio"
- 01:02:02 - Nike-2
01:04:09: Chapter 3 | Part 2: Set Piece Trends: Support Play and Good habits
- 01:05:30 - 2nd Phase Brumby Play
- 01:07:44 - Support off the Strike Runner
- 01:09:21 - Blindside Raid off Scrum
01:11:02: Chapter 4 | Part 1: The Phase ATTACK
- 01:12:16 - The SMART Pattern
- 01:18:05 - The SLIDE AND SWITCH Patterns
- 01:28:37 - The SPLIT Pattern
01:29:42: The Finale | Decision Making in Pattern: How it all fits together
- 01:36:13 - Conclusion
FULL MATCH FOOTAGE AND VIDEO CREDIT GOES TO WORLD RUGBY, WORLD CUP RUGBY, SIX NATIONS LTD AND THEIR OWNERS. THIS VIDEO IS INTENDED FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY AND IS NOT MONETISED IN ANY CASE RELEVANT TO "WIBBLE RUGBY"

[@seangilbert4623]

Great analysis and with you on Will Ferrell’s Eurovision 😃

[@ianedwards3482]

Bloody hell mate. Epic. Thank you for the trip down memory lane

[@anthonymclaughlin9222]

Hi Wibble, loved the video, these deep dives are amazing. One tiny little suggestion, some of it is a little repetitive, e.g. 'He broke down what they had in common, he broke down the common traits they had.' Maybe this is what you were going for, trying to emphasise the point, but it feels like it could be a little more streamlined. Now please don't take this for anything other than a nitpick, please keep these rugby dissertations coming, there's no one else out there bringing this level of detail. Thanks for all the hard work 😃

[@WibbleRugby]

Thats the kinda stuff i need Ant! Thank you!

[@gwh3013]

Amazing analysis.. I do hope part 2 is still on the way.

[@ianharris3925]

Unreal analysis! Keep up the good work!

[@Onyx5021]

Quite the documentary !! I couldn’t help but pick out many similarities between how this England team was building and what France have beeen doing in the past 3 years, with the changing mindset, learning from the losses and ever improving

[@tobyharrison4745]

Excellent video, thanks for all your effort.

[@Ismehdi22]

As french, and more as rugby lover, thanks for your analysis.

[@extremesportsify]

This is a little nieve but I never thought that there tactics from that long ago would be so in depth, also seeing set moves that work without a blocker is very strange

[@WibbleRugby]

Shows its possible mate! Hopefully we see some more going forward

[@Debrenliev]

Great job! The switch pattern is commonly used by Dave Rennie’s teams and Gregor Townsend’s . This pattern is very often used by Scotland.

[@WibbleRugby]

Is it? You haven't by any chance got any examples have you?

[@Debrenliev]

I have seen it in few games, for an example Scotland vs Italy 2020 and almost every game of Glasgow

[@WibbleRugby]

@@Debrenliev Expect to see it with the Wallabies pretty soon!

[@Debrenliev]

Wibble Rugby I hope so but I personally think it will be a very different approach by Rennie at Test level. The attacking coach of the Wallabies ( Wisemantel ) has a different mindset. He is more of a modern attacking structure guy, who loves the league lines pretty much and mixes the game. But let’s hope so because this structure is so easy but yet so effective and especially against the All blacks will be very productive ( lazy folding forwards after the fourth phase)

[@WibbleRugby]

@@Debrenliev Rennie and Wisemantel are both brilliant coaches. Its whether they can be brilliant together. But agreed. Simplicity is often the most effective and the Switch in particular is so underused in Rugby when it can be so effective. Imagine Kolbe coming in for this when the numbers have folded. It couls be lethal.

[@grimresolve6040]

love this.

[@bryancolbridge769]

Hey mate. Do you have a break down of the other attacking setups? Wolfie, Nike etc

[@almcdonald8676]

This unpredictability appears to be pretty much synonymous with what squidge identifies as EJs aim for England’s play. But he seems to be approaching it by an unnecessarily circuitous route

[@extremesportsify]

Awesome !

[@davidgethins306]

quality content. Very sad to see you go. Looking forward to your return to youtube

[@saoirsedeltufo7436]

I don't know how familiar you are with cricket (and I realise this is a year after you released this video) but there are some interesting parallels between this team and the England men's cricket team which won the World Cup in 2019

[@TheSuperkooldude]

What were the 11 high performance behaviours?

[@BS2Dos]

👍👍

[@gunmonkey1185]

So which of Southern Hemisphere countries will have the honor of being analyzed by your truly next?

[@WibbleRugby]

Probably NZ 2015. Australia 1999 are one of my favourite teams of all time, but NZ 2015 were something great.

[@karlosdeevs]

@JMBOFFICIAL and then one about how aussies were kings of the 90s

[@TheRishy99]

What’s the (updated)? Part?? Watched the original but wanna know what knowledge I missed

[@WibbleRugby]

Sorry Rishy. Same content. Just a cleaner cut. Some of the titles were a little overlappy for my taste!

[@TheRishy99]

Very much enjoyed and eagerly waiting for the second part!

[@dalenewton9697]

Do you have an e-money account, bitcoin, patreon or anything like that for donations?

[@WibbleRugby]

Hey Mate, thank you very much for the sentiment! :) I don't have anything like that no. This content will always be free, and when I have the time to do them it's a privilege to do so. Sincerely appreciate the sentiment behind that though mate. Hope you enjoyed it! :)

[@Personal_Chizo]

Hoooly shit, that first part felt a lot like a fascist recruiting video/MLM scheme.