Here's the crux, he didn't make errors towards the end. He made errors throughout the game. And they weren't minor errors either!
Such as?
Every player is ok outside of his errors! Even the referees are ok outside of their errors! That is not really a good way to persuade anyone or to validate an argument. Nobody cares about the things the guys do OK-ish. Everyone comments on the things a guy does very well or very badly.
No you're not understanding what i'm saying, I'm saying he made errors before he was taken off, but up until then he was fine - to ok. Could have done a couple of things differently but he wasn't making mistake after mistake after mistake the whole game as people are claiming.
The argument on the Watson incident is all on him IMHO. Watson made his debut, he was the most inexperienced player on the field for England. Farrell was more experienced, he's the team's playmaker, and he was the guy with the ball in his hand. The other players can only be held accountable for their positioning, but to be fair to them, they didn't know what Farrell was going to do.
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He takes the ball, can't kick as A: he's middle of the park and he's unlikely to hit touch, and B: has been boxed in by JS and JPP. So he dummies with Brown and sets off. He has JS and JPP on his tail, is travelling at full pelt so the kick is never going to be an option when he's travelling at that speed and i already said he's in the middle of the park so the kick is difficult from static anyway, he could try and hoof it on the run but that's a very difficult kick and if it goes wrong there is only one defender and a wall of Saffers.
He can't pass to Watson as he's too far away and A:the ball is soaking wet and B: it's off his weaker side, at that point Watson does absolutely nothing to help him make that pass, if he comes infield he could pass to him and HE could make the clearing kick, but Watson just holds his space at that point.
So Farrell runs across looking to link with Watson or get closer to touch, at which point if Watson had run the cut back it would have possibly held JPP & JS and allowed to Farrell to slow and make a decent clearing kick to touch and Watson would have been able to still link with Farrell - but he doesn't really do anything - you can see Farrell trying to pull him earlier and then at the exact wrong moment he offers himself on a switch instead of actually taking the space.
Watson is in the far better position than Farrell to see what is happening, he has the space, the depth and the pace to adjust - fine it's his second cap and he is inexperienced but that doesn't mean somehow the situation is different and it's Farrells fault it is how it unfolded and things could have been done differently in hindsight.
