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<blockquote data-quote="Every Time Ref" data-source="post: 781100" data-attributes="member: 71826">Potentially a better player than Eastmond in my opinion, although never given the opportunity to prove it with being behind him in the pecking order and messed around and made to paly every position in the backline except wing at some point.Potentially doesn&#039;t qualify him for England though.Joseph over Daly isn&#039;t an issue (bias aside) because Joseph has proved himself to be international class. I agree Daly &quot;deserves&quot; a shot, but at the end of the day selecting a team is not about &quot;deserves&quot; it&#039;s about the strongest team collectively. That includes not making too many changes and losing continuity; if you limit the number of changes you wish to make, dropping Joseph for a debutant doesn&#039;t make any sense, regardless of that debutant&#039;s domestic form.It&#039;s the decision to pick Haskell which rankles with me, because that is a personnel change, bringing in a player who isn&#039;t good enough. You&#039;re already moving your 7 to 6, why the hell bring in another 6.5 (especially after explicitly questioning that &quot;6.5&quot; thing in a press conference) who is provably not quite up to it internationally?! I&#039;m trying to give Jones the benefit of the doubt, and he does deserve the chance to show that his way can work better than the past, but there&#039;s a lot of the same issuies there. And I haven&#039;t even mentioned Goode or f*cking Hartley.Third that opinion. Isn&#039;t the international window nice, when supporters of all different clubs can come together under the one banner of b*tching and moaning about the national team.Christ, those Welsh or others who think the English are arrogant really should have a look at us tearing our new coach and his selections to shresds before a single game has been played!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Every Time Ref, post: 781100, member: 71826"] Potentially a better player than Eastmond in my opinion, although never given the opportunity to prove it with being behind him in the pecking order and messed around and made to paly every position in the backline except wing at some point. Potentially doesn't qualify him for England though. Joseph over Daly isn't an issue (bias aside) because Joseph has proved himself to be international class. I agree Daly "deserves" a shot, but at the end of the day selecting a team is not about "deserves" it's about the strongest team collectively. That includes not making too many changes and losing continuity; if you limit the number of changes you wish to make, dropping Joseph for a debutant doesn't make any sense, regardless of that debutant's domestic form. It's the decision to pick Haskell which rankles with me, because that is a personnel change, bringing in a player who isn't good enough. You're already moving your 7 to 6, why the hell bring in another 6.5 (especially after explicitly questioning that "6.5" thing in a press conference) who is provably not quite up to it internationally?! I'm trying to give Jones the benefit of the doubt, and he does deserve the chance to show that his way can work better than the past, but there's a lot of the same issuies there. And I haven't even mentioned Goode or f*cking Hartley. Third that opinion. Isn't the international window nice, when supporters of all different clubs can come together under the one banner of b*tching and moaning about the national team. Christ, those Welsh or others who think the English are arrogant really should have a look at us tearing our new coach and his selections to shresds before a single game has been played! [/QUOTE]

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