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I guess momentum is a big thing as well. If you’re winning comfortably and start to relax a bit late on in the game, the momentum is more likely to go with the opposition if they’re chasing points and are trying to get back into the match. When you’re up against it like that, conceding penalties...

It’ll be interesting to see how this break effects different players and what type of form they show over the next few months leading into the tour.

I do enjoy a line out move try.

I always think it’s almost impossible for us to have an accurate view on who a captain should be. So much of being a captain is about communication and how they interact with players off the field, how they make players feel, so many of the things go into being a good captain are things that we...

Pretty easy game to analyse IMO. I thought the team selection killed us really, certainly couldn’t fault the effort or the endeavour of the team but we just lost too many collisions. You could see it early on in the game, we were getting knocked backwards from the off and we couldn’t generate...

Big example to back this up in the final to be fair. England basically have a 5 v 2 down the left, Kolbe makes a tackle on Lawes to prevent it, it’s brilliant defence it has to be said. The pass from Ben Youngs though to George Ford just isn’t quite good enough, it’s accurate but it floats in...

9 or 10 generally, I’d say 10 is the most important position but maybe not with ball in hand as such. Think the ability to sit back, organise and communicate is pretty crucial. Although everything starts with that pass from the half back, direction from your 10 is massive. Your 10 is a coach on...

Be interesting to hear what a Wigan French accent sounds like :)

In reality, the game was won and lost in both the air and the scrum. When you lose those two areas, you’re going to find it not far from impossible to win. Particularly with the scrum, when your scrum is being torn apart like that, the knock on effect physiologically is enormous, as well as the...

He’s only 27 tbf. I think we need to be careful that we aren’t just picking players because they’re young. IMO some of the names I’ve seen being suggested would weaken the squad an awful lot if they were first choice.

It feels like that applies to all our teams in most major sports. I don’t know why. I guess in terms of today, we almost took the set piece for granted. I never, ever imagined we’d get sorted out like that.

Even that’s only at like 2/3/4th team level. A couple of weeks ago we had a game postponed due to the weather and they just switched the grounds round. In the past we’ve played at other local grounds. For me it’s really really poor if I’m honest. They’ve not done their jobs properly and there...

I think we need another game fairly desperately to be honest.

Read a few reports that there is a sickness bug in the camp so it’ll be interesting to see how the team does look. Farrell and LCD were the two names I saw who are supposedly struggling.

There’s a few off the top of my head, Giteau as already been said, Gordon D’Arcy and Brian O’Driscoll are listed as 5’10, Crotty and Laumape aren’t overly tall either who have represented NZ and are current players. Sure there are plenty more but that’s off the top of my head and that’s top...

Need to be far more accurate towards the back end of games. Not the first time we’ve lost line-outs, knocked on or been turned over when the game is in the balance. If I was a back in that last 20 mins I’d have been livid. Plenty of opportunities but thought we lost the ball far too easily and...

I’m perhaps a little bit more optimistic than most. It looks a bit all over the place at the minute but when the squad is named on Monday, I think it’ll look a little bit clearer. I’m slightly concerned about the lack of depth in a few positions but you always need a little bit of luck in World...

I, personally, think there should have been an England penalty in front of the sticks for hands in the ruck prior to the Lawes offload at the end.

Potentially but for me, the thought and ideas behind what we did were good and that's what I mean, probably more so than execution. We went after them, we pressured them, we harried them, we hit hard. You put the Vunipola's, Watson's, Tuilagi's, Joseph's, Launchburry's etc etc in and you'd hope...

Brave effort with so many missing, half as many caps as their opposition and they could and arguably should have won. Outstanding first half. Absolute blueprint. Line speed was outstanding, great contact, great push. Hit hard and often, workrate off the ball was exceptional as well. Fully...