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2025 Guinness Six Nations
[2023 Six Nations] England v France 11 March 2023. Kickoff 16:45
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<blockquote data-quote="Grizwald" data-source="post: 1123633" data-attributes="member: 71892"><p>England need to view this years WC as a free hit out like France did in 2019 and re-build a team that can compete at the highest level. over the next 2-4 years.</p><p></p><p>It was pretty pathetic yesterday. Not many players came out with much credit, I thought Steward went OK but also highlighted the defensive weaknesses in his game. I thought Itoje had one of better recent games but it's hard to give anyone much credit and equally flame anyone as it was full squad capitulation the likes I can't remember seeing the national side suffer. </p><p></p><p>We've gone a bit Australia in our forwards, favouring players with an all court game rather than focusing on their primary set piece roles. Someone commented previously how commentators and pundits were commenting how much bigger and heavier the French pack were when in reality man for man minus Wilemse England were heavier. </p><p></p><p>I expect Smith might get hung out to dry for yesterday with a high percentage of fans and armchair coaches but shouldn't IMO. JVP has been pretty poor this nations and the amount of time he's taking while it could be team orders but he's being targeted for his lack of awareness and speed around the ruck. England looked OK at time when they put a bit of pace on it yesterday, Ireland kept the ball in play a lot longer than France are used to and it paid off, England just kicked aimlessly and France lapped it up.</p><p></p><p>We just don't seem to have the players at the minute, so that needs looked at bottom up. Not sure what the answer is, central contracts, allowing foreign based players to play aboard doesn't strike me as the best thing for a national side. Need to bring young English players through and look after them hence why I tend to like the idea of central contracts where their game load is managed. The premiership is as competitive as I can ever remember it but the salary cap will show just how far behind the French and Irish sides their going to be over the next few years.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grizwald, post: 1123633, member: 71892"] England need to view this years WC as a free hit out like France did in 2019 and re-build a team that can compete at the highest level. over the next 2-4 years. It was pretty pathetic yesterday. Not many players came out with much credit, I thought Steward went OK but also highlighted the defensive weaknesses in his game. I thought Itoje had one of better recent games but it's hard to give anyone much credit and equally flame anyone as it was full squad capitulation the likes I can't remember seeing the national side suffer. We've gone a bit Australia in our forwards, favouring players with an all court game rather than focusing on their primary set piece roles. Someone commented previously how commentators and pundits were commenting how much bigger and heavier the French pack were when in reality man for man minus Wilemse England were heavier. I expect Smith might get hung out to dry for yesterday with a high percentage of fans and armchair coaches but shouldn't IMO. JVP has been pretty poor this nations and the amount of time he's taking while it could be team orders but he's being targeted for his lack of awareness and speed around the ruck. England looked OK at time when they put a bit of pace on it yesterday, Ireland kept the ball in play a lot longer than France are used to and it paid off, England just kicked aimlessly and France lapped it up. We just don't seem to have the players at the minute, so that needs looked at bottom up. Not sure what the answer is, central contracts, allowing foreign based players to play aboard doesn't strike me as the best thing for a national side. Need to bring young English players through and look after them hence why I tend to like the idea of central contracts where their game load is managed. The premiership is as competitive as I can ever remember it but the salary cap will show just how far behind the French and Irish sides their going to be over the next few years. [/QUOTE]
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