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[RWC2023 QF3] England vs Fiji (15/10/2023)
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<blockquote data-quote="Ragey Erasmus" data-source="post: 1155524" data-attributes="member: 56232"><p>They may hold back certain specific tactics but they don't hold back the entire gameplan. That stuff needs to be tested in fire. Ireland, France, New Zealand and South Africa almost certainly have stuff they have kept hidden and yet they do the basics extremely well. A side simply doesn't go from fumbling everything to pulling off a world beating gameplan. A side that is sandbagging would look uninspiring but would still be very accurate and control the game, they wouldn't start making stupid mistakes, they would simply be playing a very basic game.</p><p></p><p>It's not a case of we've done what needed to be done, 3 of those teams we have never lost to ever. Beating them is the bare minimum to be expected and that alone practically guaranteed us a place in the quarter final. Winning games that literally every other England side in history has been able to win should really not be the sort of yardstick we should be measuring ourselves against. Scraping our worst ever win against Samoa is not a case of just doing enough, it's a case of very nearly ******* up a game that every other England team that have faced Samoa have won with relative ease, even when playing **** poor. I'm not sure you are really grasping just how far below the average England performance we are currently at... For perspective, our worst ever winning margin against Samoa previously was 13. That has now been reduced to 1 with a very real chance we could have lost.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ragey Erasmus, post: 1155524, member: 56232"] They may hold back certain specific tactics but they don't hold back the entire gameplan. That stuff needs to be tested in fire. Ireland, France, New Zealand and South Africa almost certainly have stuff they have kept hidden and yet they do the basics extremely well. A side simply doesn't go from fumbling everything to pulling off a world beating gameplan. A side that is sandbagging would look uninspiring but would still be very accurate and control the game, they wouldn't start making stupid mistakes, they would simply be playing a very basic game. It's not a case of we've done what needed to be done, 3 of those teams we have never lost to ever. Beating them is the bare minimum to be expected and that alone practically guaranteed us a place in the quarter final. Winning games that literally every other England side in history has been able to win should really not be the sort of yardstick we should be measuring ourselves against. Scraping our worst ever win against Samoa is not a case of just doing enough, it's a case of very nearly ******* up a game that every other England team that have faced Samoa have won with relative ease, even when playing **** poor. I'm not sure you are really grasping just how far below the average England performance we are currently at... For perspective, our worst ever winning margin against Samoa previously was 13. That has now been reduced to 1 with a very real chance we could have lost. [/QUOTE]
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