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2024 Guinness Six Nations
2019 England = 2003 England
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<blockquote data-quote="ncurd" data-source="post: 932552" data-attributes="member: 72205"><p>To clarify further the 2003 team always get labeled as 'boring' when the reality was teams were still not used to being walloped by expert penalty kicking. So when under pressure in defence teams would infringe and then England said '3 points thank you very much' now teams defenses (except England cause heaven forbid we learn from ourselves) are way more geared to not infringing thus not getting destroyed by metronomic penalty kickers. Its why all teams rely on a specialist now to take advantage.</p><p></p><p>Never forget though England back then were extremely strong in attack teams just committed penalties in the hope to quell them.</p><p></p><p>As well as Robinson, Dallagio and Back were excellent ball carriers. As were Lewsey and Cohen. Greewood was no slouch and Catt regularly got bought in as an extra playmaker. Dawson was a brilliant sniping Scrum-Half always looking for a quick tap or gap in the fringes.</p><p></p><p>It was 'boring' because the opposition didn't want us to play and they still couldn't beat us.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ncurd, post: 932552, member: 72205"] To clarify further the 2003 team always get labeled as 'boring' when the reality was teams were still not used to being walloped by expert penalty kicking. So when under pressure in defence teams would infringe and then England said '3 points thank you very much' now teams defenses (except England cause heaven forbid we learn from ourselves) are way more geared to not infringing thus not getting destroyed by metronomic penalty kickers. Its why all teams rely on a specialist now to take advantage. Never forget though England back then were extremely strong in attack teams just committed penalties in the hope to quell them. As well as Robinson, Dallagio and Back were excellent ball carriers. As were Lewsey and Cohen. Greewood was no slouch and Catt regularly got bought in as an extra playmaker. Dawson was a brilliant sniping Scrum-Half always looking for a quick tap or gap in the fringes. It was 'boring' because the opposition didn't want us to play and they still couldn't beat us. [/QUOTE]
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