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<blockquote data-quote="Aedaphon" data-source="post: 556615" data-attributes="member: 46333">It&#039;s not a blanket &quot;bad&quot; decision to throw up a jumper 5m out, it&#039;s just a risky strategy. High-risk decisions lead to higher rewards and higher losses, as we saw with Lawes (thank god...)Also to reiterate what another poster said above, using Beauxis and Skrela as examples of French fly-halves getting game time is a moot point... They&#039;d already proven themselves as international outside halves and it&#039;s no surprise to anyone that they were going to be ousted for younger options eventually. To my knowledge no Top 14 side lends out their developing players to other sides to give them a starting position and play time (as is common in the Premiership) or to play &quot;low-reward&quot; games such as the Anglo-Welsh cup.That last point might actually be because there aren&#039;t really any non top-flight games in France, as far as I can tell there are only Top14 and Heineken games...?Just to contrast France with England, Burns and Ford have been getting game time under their belts for a number of years and they&#039;re 22 and 19 respectively. By the time they&#039;re in their mid-20s they&#039;ll have much more experience than any young French 10 coming through the academy system (as far as I can tell). Farrell&#039;s the exception here because he was injury cover that turned out fantastically for Sarries... Jeremy Lin anyone?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aedaphon, post: 556615, member: 46333"] It's not a blanket "bad" decision to throw up a jumper 5m out, it's just a risky strategy. High-risk decisions lead to higher rewards and higher losses, as we saw with Lawes (thank god...) Also to reiterate what another poster said above, using Beauxis and Skrela as examples of French fly-halves getting game time is a moot point... They'd already proven themselves as international outside halves and it's no surprise to anyone that they were going to be ousted for younger options eventually. To my knowledge no Top 14 side lends out their developing players to other sides to give them a starting position and play time (as is common in the Premiership) or to play "low-reward" games such as the Anglo-Welsh cup. That last point might actually be because there aren't really any non top-flight games in France, as far as I can tell there are only Top14 and Heineken games...? Just to contrast France with England, Burns and Ford have been getting game time under their belts for a number of years and they're 22 and 19 respectively. By the time they're in their mid-20s they'll have much more experience than any young French 10 coming through the academy system (as far as I can tell). Farrell's the exception here because he was injury cover that turned out fantastically for Sarries... Jeremy Lin anyone? [/QUOTE]

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