Just watched the game last night without knowing the score, having been in Hungary for a couple of days. Delighted with the win as the first half had me very, very worried.
A few random things struck me/were reinforced:
1) Tom Youngs is an excellent player who seems to be quite central to our gainline success and quick ball generation. I've seen very few front row forwards with a leg drive as good as his. I think he could be very hard to dislodge from a starting berth if he keeps on improving.
2) Admttedly this worked in our favour at times yesterday, but I feel referees and touch-judges need to start monitoring lineouts to the front better; just because the ball is taken earlier in flight doesn't mean its not a massively skewed throw
. Its virtually impossible to compete in these scenarios.
3) Whilst I don't necessarily think Ashton should be dropped quite yet, its becoming increasingly indefensible to pick him with his tackling so amateur, and when we're seemingly not picking guys like Chritian Wade for even the wider EPS, because of an alleged defensive weakness.
4) Lawes: told you so
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5) Hugely lucky try? Yep, without doubt. But we got shafted by an equally freak series of events in that autumn game against South Africa, so I make no apologies for it :d
6) I was impressed with Goode in the autumn, but recently the more I watch him the more I think he's a holding template of a player. I wish he'd stop with the outrageous dancing, and actually try and make some metres running the ball back.
