Wales’ first-ever specialist breakdown coach wants the team to thrive on the pressure of their status as grand slam champions – and prioritise coolness and efficiency over sheer work-rate
The woodburner just over his right shoulder is warming the room nicely but, even these days, nothing burns more intensely than Sam Warburton’s competitive instincts. “I want to be king of the jungle,” he says at one point, taking aim at the “defeatist attitude” he feels still exists in too many Welsh minds before the Six Nations. “I want pressure. I want to be top of the food chain, I want people to be chasing our tails. I want us to be the standard-bearers, the ones people are aspiring to be.”
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Written by Robert Kitson
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/jan/10/sam-warburton-i-want-to-be-king-of-the-jungle-but-ive-got-zero-credibility-as-a-coach under the title “Sam Warburton: ‘I want to be king of the jungle. But I’ve got zero credibility as a coach’”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
