Woodward making the most of England defeat

England's Rugby World Cup lineout shocker has provided a learning opportunity for 2003 World Cup winning coach Sir Clive Woodward.

Woodward was one of several speakers, alongside World Rugby boss Brett Gosper and former All Blacks taskmaster Sir Graham Henry at a rugby conference overnight in London.

Woodward's address 'How to build a champion team' focused on his own experiences both in rugby and with the Team GB Olympic programme while also talking about moments under pressure.

In his slideshow he gave two video examples of moments under pressure, the first a diving competition at the 2004 Athens Olympics and the second one straight from Chris Robshaw's decision to go for touch in Sunday morning's match against Wales.

Woodward emphasised the importance of understanding pressure and revealed when he was in charge of England, he would stop team meetings to throw such a scenario at a player, like being four points down with five minutes to play.

He's already come out swinging against Stuart Lancaster's coaching regime for being to blame for the decision in a blunt column in the Daily Mail.

Gosper opened the conference, believing rugby is in a state of growth, describing the sport as a "scrum going forward, rather nicely" and reeling off some impressive numbers around growth in broadcast and digital numbers in the World Cup.

He preached about the importance of a spot at the Rio and Tokyo Olympics for sevens, calling it "one chance" to impress with a decision on sevens being at future games to be made in 2017.

Sir Graham Henry's topic discussed developed a winning mentality, while former Argentina captain-turned-adminstrator Agustin Pichot talked about rugby's return to the Olympics.