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<blockquote data-quote="Vieux Talonneur" data-source="post: 1018043" data-attributes="member: 73144">Definitely agree the off piste.Ref selection. This is Italy - and they&#039;re crapper than we are.&nbsp; If the likes of Randall, Odugwu etc don&#039;t get to play any part in this then they&#039;re in for a long dispiriting bubble holding tackle bags. I&#039;d stand down Youngs, Faz, Billy and possibly Itoje altogether and let them hold the tackle bags for a change. I&#039;ve got a long diatribe brewing in my head but for now.....Watson was the outstanding back rower on the pitch yesterday and has been excellent for a long time. Gatland was there yesterday and that won&#039;t have escaped his notice. The one player who I think is crucial to our pack above all others is Underhill for the way he dominates collisions.I was astonished by Hill&#039;s tackle stats. Fair play to him if those are right, but I barely noticed him. Bit Robshaw like in plenty of work but probably very few entries in the dominant tackles column. He doesn&#039;t scream international class to me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Vieux Talonneur, post: 1018043, member: 73144"] Definitely agree the off piste. Ref selection. This is Italy - and they’re crapper than we are. If the likes of Randall, Odugwu etc don’t get to play any part in this then they’re in for a long dispiriting bubble holding tackle bags. I’d stand down Youngs, Faz, Billy and possibly Itoje altogether and let them hold the tackle bags for a change. I’ve got a long diatribe brewing in my head but for now.....Watson was the outstanding back rower on the pitch yesterday and has been excellent for a long time. Gatland was there yesterday and that won’t have escaped his notice. The one player who I think is crucial to our pack above all others is Underhill for the way he dominates collisions. I was astonished by Hill’s tackle stats. Fair play to him if those are right, but I barely noticed him. Bit Robshaw like in plenty of work but probably very few entries in the dominant tackles column. He doesn’t scream international class to me. [/QUOTE]

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