If by gassed you mean sat on his face and farted, yes.
I suppose this makes sense given the squad picked, but then again, Lancaster was the halfwit who thought you wanted three full-backs (inc. Alex Goode) and only three wings with no real wing/centre cover. Eastmond vaguely counts and would have been an interesting bench choice at least.
I can live with Ashton. Circumstance has conspired against us and he was the only winger left in the squad. I can live with Foden. I don't think he did badly in his last appearances there and he at least has the pace for it.
But Alex Goode, well, really... neither positionally suited to the needs of the moment, nor a genuinely classy international, nor a choice we were constrained into making. I think this is a mistake.
I am unhappy about the pack. Good luck to David Wilson, he's deserved a start and I hope he makes the most of it, particularly as he's the only really powerful carrier in the tight five. I think the praise for Billy Vunipola was somewhat overdone from last match. I think he only got going on the run twice. Most of the time the Aussies stopped him before he got too far. Which wasn't his fault really as most of the time he received the ball with two Aussies lining him up. Not much going to happen. And that's the point really, yes he's a wrecking ball, but if there's two Argentines waiting for him everytime its not going to happen. And with this team they can do that pretty safely. The best we can do is exploit the hole we make from sucking in two defenders by moving the ball to the a gap in the line.... which we know probably won't happen.
Should win, but I think it could be another disappointing performance.
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