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<blockquote data-quote="BPM" data-source="post: 914447" data-attributes="member: 59968">I think you&#039;ll find that there is a fairly strong feeling among a lot of England fans that Farrell is not quite as &#039;world class&#039; as the media likes to suggest.As a 10 he lacks instinctive creativity and has very little flair, but is undoubtedly very strong at the basics - in essence very solid but not at all spectacular. I can live with that to a degree and would probably prefer that to a mercurial type of player with flashes of brilliance and howlers in equally measure. However, in his last few games at 10 for England, he hasn&#039;t managed the game in the way I would expect and our attack has suffered. He doesn&#039;t seem to play like he does for Saracens which could be the England system but it shouldn&#039;t stop him being able to dictate the attack from 10.As a 12, he&#039;s improved a lot, but he still offers very little running threat which makes us very predictable and kills a lot of opportunity in the 13 channel. It&#039;s not just him, but I don&#039;t think it&#039;s a coincidence that no one has really shone working with him at outside centre. We just repetitively use these wrap moves between Ford and Farrell that are so obvious and rarely well-executed ...His defence is also massively overrated. He goes for big hits and is often too high and often misses which leaves dog legs for good teams to exploit. That&#039;s not good organisation IMO.I&#039;m not suggesting we drop him. I think having him at 12 is the best of a range of sub-optimal options, but let&#039;s not pretend he&#039;s infallible.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BPM, post: 914447, member: 59968"] I think you’ll find that there is a fairly strong feeling among a lot of England fans that Farrell is not quite as ‘world class’ as the media likes to suggest. As a 10 he lacks instinctive creativity and has very little flair, but is undoubtedly very strong at the basics - in essence very solid but not at all spectacular. I can live with that to a degree and would probably prefer that to a mercurial type of player with flashes of brilliance and howlers in equally measure. However, in his last few games at 10 for England, he hasn’t managed the game in the way I would expect and our attack has suffered. He doesn’t seem to play like he does for Saracens which could be the England system but it shouldn’t stop him being able to dictate the attack from 10. As a 12, he’s improved a lot, but he still offers very little running threat which makes us very predictable and kills a lot of opportunity in the 13 channel. It’s not just him, but I don’t think it’s a coincidence that no one has really shone working with him at outside centre. We just repetitively use these wrap moves between Ford and Farrell that are so obvious and rarely well-executed ... His defence is also massively overrated. He goes for big hits and is often too high and often misses which leaves dog legs for good teams to exploit. That’s not good organisation IMO. I’m not suggesting we drop him. I think having him at 12 is the best of a range of sub-optimal options, but let’s not pretend he’s infallible. [/QUOTE]

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