Bravo Chistera, you guessed right like 99% of us. Are they predictable or wot
This selection is an indictment of the staff's choices. They've gone back over their decision of the last 2 yrs for SH, centre & 7.
Parra's make-up and play-making have been screaming for him to start every game. Yet he has been systematically benched since he returned from injury even though he did recapture his form with his club. No one knows why. If our backs could side step and bamboozle the opposition like PSA-Lagisquet have with their anal selections & coaching, we'd be World Champs by now.
Morgan has made 2 finals last season with his club. What else is he supposed to do? Change sex? How come seasoned test players like Parra & Fofana play with such confidence for their club but go AWol in selection? If this isn't a coaching issue, must be the weather.
Parra's confidence is down to his socks when he is naturally a confident player. Benching a petit general is the worst thing they could have done to him. The staff only needed to look at Clermont to get only a vague clue. Now they are forced to start him because STB's limitations have been exposed as we knew they would v a tier 1 side. STB, PSA's all-time favourite lick, doesn't even make the bench when the staff have tried for 3 yrs to turn him into the No1 SH he never was.
STB was always a 3rd choice SH. At test level he is a tractor IMO. We must be the only tier 1 nation that have picked 2 HB pairs fit to play tier 2 nations. STB Tales Dumoulin are good league players but at test level they're tractors. I don't know how Kockott who makes the bench fits in this mess.
Dumoulin's inclusion in the group must be a bad joke. Does anyone realise that he's never scored a try at test level? This is what we pick in a QF to face the ABs. Weheee.
I keep saying we're our worst enemy. If they had tried to deliberately scupper the team, they couldn't have done a better job. What do they see in Dumoulin? His coach at Racing Laurent Labit said he couldn't figure out what he was doing in the RWC squad. He has done nohting all season (partly thru injury).
Let's leave out leaders. They don't want a repeat of 2011 with an embarrassing display of player power. This staff is no Marc Bunny Lievremont. They're the FFr Muppet Show Triumvirate.Let's bring in Don Blancorleone to rein in the boys. Feed them rugby 80s BS pep talks that sure as hell have fallen on deaf ears.
let's bench that little ****head of Parra. He can boss the game for us, kick the goals, boss the pack but let's not admit we're wrong.
Fact is they have brought on Parra everytime STB has got exposed for the average SH we know he is.They have consistently used key players who could make a difference as fill-gaps to shore up their own coaching and selection blunders. Yet they deny them the confidence to start games. Atrocious coaching.
Never seen Louis Picamoles play solo like he does now. He didn't learn that in Toulouse. He needs a proper 7 and he got Chouly's ghost instead in the last game. He needs a 7 like Nyanga at Toulouse. They've only won 3 european Cups and 2 league ***les together!! Another successful club combo ignored. What do I know?!I almost forgot Nyanga is actually in the squad, so did he probably. No doubt Yannick who makes the bench and may get a 10 min cameo (if lucky) can't wait to go home to his club...to PLAY.
Fofana's been crying out for a distributor in the centre. The staff have fielded the same centre pairs for 2 shagging yrs with the same useless outcome. Philippe is this why we're no longer unpredictable what dya reckon.
There's not one club in T14 today that operates along those lines :huh:
In the last game we ignored 4 clear overlap situations in the 1st half alone incl. a 6 on 3, without even trying to play one of them. Let's bish bash our way back trhu the middle go to ground again with a bit of luck we might succeed in burying the ball altogether.
All the competitive club combos have been ignored:
Parra-Lopez at Clermont
FTD-Pelissié at Montpellier in 2013-14
Bastareau-Mermoz at Toulon - they've only won 3 CCups together and 1 league ***le!!
Rougerie-Fofana at Clermont
Toulouse backrow
etc
Machenaud was the best SH last season and best back for Racing. And he can goal kick too. Ignored.we have a backs division with over a 100 caps at home, inccl. players with more experience but actually younger as well!! Michalak is 34. Tales is 31 with a mere 7 or8 caps.
I bet Hansen gave his video analyst the week off. I would. There's more important games coming.
In 2007 we had a great man motivator in Laporte and real leaders. We had leaders in 2011 again. None of that today. No leadership. No grunt. No interest. No game plan other than bish bash kick Repeat ad nauseam - don't pass- save your hands for your next p****.
Home George!
