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<blockquote data-quote="j&amp;#039;nuh" data-source="post: 628502" data-attributes="member: 55446">May beats so many more defenders and makes so many more meters and clean breaks per run than Nowell does...Sorry, Nowell has been the worst England back for me. We&#039;ve seen that he can stop big men like Picamoles, but we also saw today that wingers can take him on the outside. Shrugged aside by North worryingly easily. Missed three of his four tackles today. Terrible rucking. As a winger, you&#039;re often the first player to reach the breakdown in the backline, since play often breaks down just before it gets to you. And he was an absolute hindrance at one particular ruck. He did this weird flop on top of his player, which meant Twelvetrees could neither get to the ball, nor drive through the ruck. I think our standards are very low if we pick him on the basis of his running. He&#039;s a decent runner, but that should be an absolute minimum from a winger. But he&#039;s still miles off May, Yarde and Wade in that regards. He&#039;s not particularly creative, fast, doesn&#039;t beat many defenders or look like he&#039;ll worry defences.I will say that he&#039;s been good considering how little rugby he&#039;s played at pro level. Could be something in a year or two. But as for now, I&#039;m going to say we should pick two from May/Wade/Yarde.He looks to me very much like an out-of-position fullback.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="j'nuh, post: 628502, member: 55446"] May beats so many more defenders and makes so many more meters and clean breaks per run than Nowell does... Sorry, Nowell has been the worst England back for me. We've seen that he can stop big men like Picamoles, but we also saw today that wingers can take him on the outside. Shrugged aside by North worryingly easily. Missed three of his four tackles today. Terrible rucking. As a winger, you're often the first player to reach the breakdown in the backline, since play often breaks down just before it gets to you. And he was an absolute hindrance at one particular ruck. He did this weird flop on top of his player, which meant Twelvetrees could neither get to the ball, nor drive through the ruck. I think our standards are very low if we pick him on the basis of his running. He's a decent runner, but that should be an absolute minimum from a winger. But he's still miles off May, Yarde and Wade in that regards. He's not particularly creative, fast, doesn't beat many defenders or look like he'll worry defences. I will say that he's been good considering how little rugby he's played at pro level. Could be something in a year or two. But as for now, I'm going to say we should pick two from May/Wade/Yarde. He looks to me very much like an out-of-position fullback. [/QUOTE]

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