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[2021 Six Nations] England Squad
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<blockquote data-quote="Ragey Erasmus" data-source="post: 1025275" data-attributes="member: 56232"><p>If there is one thing players in the current England squad can definitely not be accused of, it is of being able to adapt. Also there is a difference between trying out players, deciding they aren't good enough and dropping them and simply not looking to begin with. All players work within a system, Saracens players in particular were renowned for their system and not so much their individual players.</p><p></p><p>I don't doubt that Jones is picking who he thinks is best, the problem is I think he is allowing his judgement of who is best to be clouded by favouritism. When coaches have their favourites it's rarely because they know they are bad but want to keep picking them, it's because they have lost the ability to look at a players performance objectively. Excuses are made for repeated poor performances whilst every error of their competitor is scrutinised to the tiniest detail. Take Billy V, he is the most obvious example of the current player not being judged against the same criteria as the people competing for the spot. Dombrandt was excluded because apparently his workrate isn't good enough and his fitness is poor, then you see Billy V's workrate has been atrocious numerous times with no hint of it being a problem to Jones. Simmonds and the Chiefs players in general are dismissed for only operating within a system yet he fills his squad with Sarries players who operate within a system and also the England team as a whole all play to the England system, there is very little individuality in our play.</p><p></p><p>That's what people mean by his favourites, he applies a double standard and reasons given for the alternatives not getting a place often apply as much or even more to those already in the squad. If the criteria Jones claims are the actual criteria he uses then many of the players in the squad should not be there.</p><p></p><p>However this has gone a step above that, he has now accused various English players of simply not being good enough and also hinted that some players are only in because they are the best of a bad bunch. All he's done is **** off everyone both in and out of the squad with such an idiotic statement, especially when it is so clearly false.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ragey Erasmus, post: 1025275, member: 56232"] If there is one thing players in the current England squad can definitely not be accused of, it is of being able to adapt. Also there is a difference between trying out players, deciding they aren't good enough and dropping them and simply not looking to begin with. All players work within a system, Saracens players in particular were renowned for their system and not so much their individual players. I don't doubt that Jones is picking who he thinks is best, the problem is I think he is allowing his judgement of who is best to be clouded by favouritism. When coaches have their favourites it's rarely because they know they are bad but want to keep picking them, it's because they have lost the ability to look at a players performance objectively. Excuses are made for repeated poor performances whilst every error of their competitor is scrutinised to the tiniest detail. Take Billy V, he is the most obvious example of the current player not being judged against the same criteria as the people competing for the spot. Dombrandt was excluded because apparently his workrate isn't good enough and his fitness is poor, then you see Billy V's workrate has been atrocious numerous times with no hint of it being a problem to Jones. Simmonds and the Chiefs players in general are dismissed for only operating within a system yet he fills his squad with Sarries players who operate within a system and also the England team as a whole all play to the England system, there is very little individuality in our play. That's what people mean by his favourites, he applies a double standard and reasons given for the alternatives not getting a place often apply as much or even more to those already in the squad. If the criteria Jones claims are the actual criteria he uses then many of the players in the squad should not be there. However this has gone a step above that, he has now accused various English players of simply not being good enough and also hinted that some players are only in because they are the best of a bad bunch. All he's done is **** off everyone both in and out of the squad with such an idiotic statement, especially when it is so clearly false. [/QUOTE]
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