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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ragey Erasmus" data-source="post: 1035008" data-attributes="member: 56232"><p>Wouldn't have Farrell back at 10. For all his inconsistencies, England have a vastly better history of performances with Ford at 10 than Farrell. I don't know how many times Farrell has to be utterly crap at 10 for us before this is recognised. As has been pointed out by others, he can play 10 when the 9 and 12/15 are also strong individuals calling the shots. If he is expected to call the shots at 10, he invariably retreats into a hyper-conservative style and the team become extremely predictable. Ford naturally doesn't do that, that's more a thing that happened with England, particularly when Farrell was then at 12. Ford is a 10 who can make the decisions and run the game, Farrell is a 10 who can execute orders but is seriously lacking in his own decision making.</p></blockquote><p></p>