England Six Nations Squad 2025

[Which Tyler]

Like your thinking, but that's too much change and disruption.
Also, Hendy? Really?

 

[TRF_Olyy]

3 Rodd

Erm

 

[Wasps92]

Freeman seems to be a bit of a boo boy for some reason.

 

[Grizwald]

Players look top class in the prem but look rather average when they play against the best at this level ..

It's all about the stats and spreadsheets...

I think these are two current issues. In the prem I heard a stat about the amount of fixtures pre Christmas that had a winning margin of 30 or more. It was big. I don't think it preparing the players for international rugby. The positive on the salary cap may be that more younger lads get exposed to pro rugby sooner.

Borthwick and Co are too stats driven has been a criticism. It's all well and good until you get punched in the face and all that. Ireland adapted in the pitch yesterday, England don't seem to be able to and/or aren't given the freedom.

 

[Grizwald]

Freeman seems to be a bit of a boo boy for some reason.

I think he's a cracking player. He seems to be getting targeted as not having the top end pace, but England have surpey had slower in recent memory, Nowell and Daly for two.

I think most of the alternatives also have flaws to their game.

 

[Rugbyfan564]

Jame George has been (re) added to the squad. Curtis Langdon is still in there as well but no Raffi Quirke or Arthur Clark.

 

[Vieux Talonneur]

Jame George has been (re) added to the squad. Curtis Langdon is still in there as well but no Raffi Quirke or Arthur Clark.

4 hookers? Sounding like a house of ill repute.

 

[Geordie]

Freeman seems to be a bit of a boo boy for some reason.

Well your always going to have difference's of opinions on games and players.

I've been critical of him for England in past games that he has looked a little anonymous but I felt he was pretty good yesterday.

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

When SB fires up his spreadsheets for France he'll notice that…..

The discipline needs to be sorted. We can moan all we like about the ref, but at the end of the day, it looks like another we managed to get on the wrong side of. Conceding 11 pens, 2 free kicks and a yellow isn't going to help win many matches. The only players to concede more than one pen were the captain Itoje and vice captain Genge.

Slade conceded one turnover and missed 4 out of 10 attempted tackles. Mitchell also conceded a turnover and only completed 3 of 9 attempted tackles.

Freeman conceded 3 turnovers with LCD and Itoje conceding 2 each. The only other multiple offender was Earl who conceded 2 and missed 3 of the 10 tackles he attempted.

Standout in defence was B Curry with a perfect completion of 18. Itoje completed all 15 of his and Martin all 14 of his.

Stuart was recorded with just 2 metres run, Martin just 1 and zero from Itoje. Your big guys have to make more impact than that.

Source:

Ireland vs England - Player Statistics - Six Nations 2025 - 1 Feb, 2025 - ESPN

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I'm genuinely amazed at how discipline and tackling technique has been such a weakness for so long with England. These are supposed to be professionals so why are we consistently worse than even the likes for ******* Italy and some tier 2 teams in these areas? I really can't understand what the hell is going on at club and international level that some of the basics are so awful. There is so excuse to have a tackle completion rate below 75%, and that's already not exactly a target of a "good" rate, merely an acceptable one.