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2024 Guinness Six Nations
England vs Italy - 10/03/2013
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<blockquote data-quote="Ospreylian" data-source="post: 554421" data-attributes="member: 59055"><p>Yeah I don't think experimenting a lot would be showing Italy much respect to be honest. And I know, from a Welsh perspective, whenever the Welsh coaches have tinkered with a lot of positions at once for Italy they always come unstuck. So if I were an England supporter I wouldn't want to see many changes. I'd get rid of Brown (or move him to fullback) and Ashton. Both have been pretty dreadful in defence recently. I'd much prefer Wade on the wing, I really rate that guy. And I haven't been impressed at all with Goode, very average in my opinion. Probably the second worst fullback in the tournament, only beaten by Huget, whose positioning and defence work has been astonishingly awful throughout the competition. </p><p></p><p>And as much as Barritt may be a great defensive centre blah blah blah, he's not a natural attacking inside centre. Give Twelvetrees the chance, let him prove he can defend as well as attack. A centre with the natural abilities of someone like Twelvetrees isn't going to struggle to learn how to defend to the best of his abilities. So rather than concentrating on Barritt, the coaches need to be developing Twelvetrees in all aspects of his game. Tuilagi works brilliantly off him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ospreylian, post: 554421, member: 59055"] Yeah I don't think experimenting a lot would be showing Italy much respect to be honest. And I know, from a Welsh perspective, whenever the Welsh coaches have tinkered with a lot of positions at once for Italy they always come unstuck. So if I were an England supporter I wouldn't want to see many changes. I'd get rid of Brown (or move him to fullback) and Ashton. Both have been pretty dreadful in defence recently. I'd much prefer Wade on the wing, I really rate that guy. And I haven't been impressed at all with Goode, very average in my opinion. Probably the second worst fullback in the tournament, only beaten by Huget, whose positioning and defence work has been astonishingly awful throughout the competition. And as much as Barritt may be a great defensive centre blah blah blah, he's not a natural attacking inside centre. Give Twelvetrees the chance, let him prove he can defend as well as attack. A centre with the natural abilities of someone like Twelvetrees isn't going to struggle to learn how to defend to the best of his abilities. So rather than concentrating on Barritt, the coaches need to be developing Twelvetrees in all aspects of his game. Tuilagi works brilliantly off him. [/QUOTE]
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