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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ragey Erasmus" data-source="post: 1118269" data-attributes="member: 56232">Not one for the WC but I still think Mercer is exactly the sort of 8 England need. Literally everything we want from our 8's he does. He's a better carrier now than Vunipola, is probably only behind Simmonds for speed, has been a lineout jumper, has that little added aggression and also that never say die attitude. It was him who chased down Smith running half the length of the pitch to stop him scoring a try.Dombrandt, like Simmonds is not really performing well at 8 but then I'd argue the 8 they replaced had been performing even worse. Maybe the issue is we are **** poor at utilising our 8's well and haven't moved away from the idea of having Billy Prime playing there?</blockquote>