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2024 Guinness Six Nations
[2024 Six Nations] Italy vs England - 03/02/24
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<blockquote data-quote="Ragey Erasmus" data-source="post: 1173931" data-attributes="member: 56232"><p>For me, if you are rebuilding and want to temper expectations, I'd say the team should look at getting the "difficult to beat" label. That means rock solid defence and a good tactical game to keep pressure on the opponents. An attacking game can be built off that afterwards but you want a team that you think can stick if for the full 80 and minimise nasty surprises.</p><p></p><p>As it is, England's defence is laughably leaky. Players constantly cut right through the middle of our supposedly set defence and pretty much every time the ball gets to the wings, the are able to overload our wing with 2 or 3 on 1's. This simply should not be happening at international level. Yes defences creak after being put under pressure but ours too often completely implode after just 2 or 3 phases, with players often passive and letting our opponents dictate the pace. Many of our players are also too slow to minimise the damage of a break once it has been made, or too lazy to put in the effort to get back onside and minimise the damage. Players are able to run through our defence without even doing any trickery, they will simply get a person to run at a small gap and it's like nobody knows what to do in that situation and breeze right through. No last minute offload or trickery, a player runs right at a gap, the defence can see the player running at the gap but do nothing to stop it.</p><p></p><p>If Borthwick can get the team doing the basics well, make it difficult to score against us and just create a "solid" team this year, I will be content with that. First run out this year and they seem to be further from that than they were last year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ragey Erasmus, post: 1173931, member: 56232"] For me, if you are rebuilding and want to temper expectations, I'd say the team should look at getting the "difficult to beat" label. That means rock solid defence and a good tactical game to keep pressure on the opponents. An attacking game can be built off that afterwards but you want a team that you think can stick if for the full 80 and minimise nasty surprises. As it is, England's defence is laughably leaky. Players constantly cut right through the middle of our supposedly set defence and pretty much every time the ball gets to the wings, the are able to overload our wing with 2 or 3 on 1's. This simply should not be happening at international level. Yes defences creak after being put under pressure but ours too often completely implode after just 2 or 3 phases, with players often passive and letting our opponents dictate the pace. Many of our players are also too slow to minimise the damage of a break once it has been made, or too lazy to put in the effort to get back onside and minimise the damage. Players are able to run through our defence without even doing any trickery, they will simply get a person to run at a small gap and it's like nobody knows what to do in that situation and breeze right through. No last minute offload or trickery, a player runs right at a gap, the defence can see the player running at the gap but do nothing to stop it. If Borthwick can get the team doing the basics well, make it difficult to score against us and just create a "solid" team this year, I will be content with that. First run out this year and they seem to be further from that than they were last year. [/QUOTE]
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