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2024 Guinness Six Nations
[2022 Six Nations] Scotland vs England (05/02/22)
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<blockquote data-quote="Ragey Erasmus" data-source="post: 1074881" data-attributes="member: 56232"><p>There are various decisions I feel were wrong and contributed to our loss but taking Smith off was not one of them. If Squidge is to be believed (huge pinch of salt), England only had 1 period of prolonged possession after Ford came on with the Scots mostly controlling the game by that point.</p><p></p><p>Smith has lots of potential but, as others said, he isn't the finished article. Russell was all over the place when he first came on the international scene and was known for rabbit in the headlights all-or-nothing type plays and could as easily win a game as lose it. Smith already feels he is coming in at a higher level of control than Russell had but it will still take time to get bedded in. To make out Ford is such a step down is pretty insulting to Ford really.</p><p></p><p>The game was lost largely because we utterly failed to capitalise when we were dominating. This was largely down to our failing attack and the orchestrators of that on the field and Smith and Youngs, with Jones still being the attack coach I believe? We need to sort out our attack because it is far too predictable now, with the vast majority being either 1 out runners off a 9 who refuses to pass to a player already in motion, moves off a 10 who needs to stand deep to not immediately get clattered as Youngs is so slow and predictable passing, or endless box kicks / 10 kicks, both largely due to the defence being set every single phase.</p><p></p><p>TL;DR get rid of Youngs, get a 9 who will actually play fast and then see what happens. So many of our issues stem from extremely slow ball.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ragey Erasmus, post: 1074881, member: 56232"] There are various decisions I feel were wrong and contributed to our loss but taking Smith off was not one of them. If Squidge is to be believed (huge pinch of salt), England only had 1 period of prolonged possession after Ford came on with the Scots mostly controlling the game by that point. Smith has lots of potential but, as others said, he isn't the finished article. Russell was all over the place when he first came on the international scene and was known for rabbit in the headlights all-or-nothing type plays and could as easily win a game as lose it. Smith already feels he is coming in at a higher level of control than Russell had but it will still take time to get bedded in. To make out Ford is such a step down is pretty insulting to Ford really. The game was lost largely because we utterly failed to capitalise when we were dominating. This was largely down to our failing attack and the orchestrators of that on the field and Smith and Youngs, with Jones still being the attack coach I believe? We need to sort out our attack because it is far too predictable now, with the vast majority being either 1 out runners off a 9 who refuses to pass to a player already in motion, moves off a 10 who needs to stand deep to not immediately get clattered as Youngs is so slow and predictable passing, or endless box kicks / 10 kicks, both largely due to the defence being set every single phase. TL;DR get rid of Youngs, get a 9 who will actually play fast and then see what happens. So many of our issues stem from extremely slow ball. [/QUOTE]
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