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2024 Guinness Six Nations
[2020 Six Nations] England vs Wales (07/03/20)
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<blockquote data-quote="klitarris" data-source="post: 990640" data-attributes="member: 72501"><p>I expect England to make another step up in terms of intensity (and hopefully skill, creativity and execution) from the Ireland game, which was itself a step up from the Scotland game, itself a step up from the France game - the less said about which the better! I think that step up, plus home advantage, plus Wales' injuries, will mean a fairly comfortable win for us. And by comfortable, I don't necessarily mean in terms of scoreline. Of course, having said all that, we're going to go and get beaten!</p><p></p><p>What I am trying to work out is why we've been pretty rubbish so far this 6 nations. Sure, against Ireland it was a good performance but as has been pointed out already Murray and Sexton were so bad that we didn't have to play that well in order to win relatively easily. There has to be an element of world cup hangover, and personally i think that against France at least our Saracens guys were certainly affected by the salary cap goings on. But this is virtually the same team that a few months ago went in to the world cup final as favourites to win, having benn (in my view) comfortably the best team in the competition. In the final itself they were undone by a number of factors, the largest of which was clearly an inspired performance by the Springboks - both players and backroom staff. Were our players that traumatised by that final Was the process of getting there such an effort that they;ve essentially had to reset afterwards? Are we trying a different gameplan? Have we been that affected by injuries and/or people playing out of position? I'm genuinely interested in people's thoughts.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klitarris, post: 990640, member: 72501"] I expect England to make another step up in terms of intensity (and hopefully skill, creativity and execution) from the Ireland game, which was itself a step up from the Scotland game, itself a step up from the France game - the less said about which the better! I think that step up, plus home advantage, plus Wales' injuries, will mean a fairly comfortable win for us. And by comfortable, I don't necessarily mean in terms of scoreline. Of course, having said all that, we're going to go and get beaten! What I am trying to work out is why we've been pretty rubbish so far this 6 nations. Sure, against Ireland it was a good performance but as has been pointed out already Murray and Sexton were so bad that we didn't have to play that well in order to win relatively easily. There has to be an element of world cup hangover, and personally i think that against France at least our Saracens guys were certainly affected by the salary cap goings on. But this is virtually the same team that a few months ago went in to the world cup final as favourites to win, having benn (in my view) comfortably the best team in the competition. In the final itself they were undone by a number of factors, the largest of which was clearly an inspired performance by the Springboks - both players and backroom staff. Were our players that traumatised by that final Was the process of getting there such an effort that they;ve essentially had to reset afterwards? Are we trying a different gameplan? Have we been that affected by injuries and/or people playing out of position? I'm genuinely interested in people's thoughts. [/QUOTE]
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