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Moment of the weekend: Goode’s jinking run from behind own line
An outrageous bit of skill from England fullback Alex Goode as he beat several men in his own in-goal area before breaking out to relieve the pressure
21 replies on “Moment of the weekend: Goode’s jinking run from behind own line”
Just cannot agree, as good moment as it was it was borne out of panic and not from artistry.
Lydiates sleight of hand was sublime, totally unexpected from his player profile and lead to a match winning moment, it truly was a transcendent twinkling in the game.
Utter nonsense. Goode pulls off runs like that for Saracens most weeks. Its not panic, its skill. He may not be the best Fullback we have, but he does not deserve the constant sniping he seems to be getting right now.
Moments of panic are part and parcel of playing fullback, as you’re the last line of defense! It’s not like Goode caused the panic, he reacted to the situation and was skillful enough to evade a number of tackles and get all the way to the 22, retaining possession!
I agree. THat pass from Lydiate. Superb, and unexpected.
Agreed about Lydiate. Who knew?
I disagree with Big Dia on one thing though, this isn’t born out of panic, in fact panic is the last thing he does. It is good from Goode but he only gets the chance to run cos Sexton unusually misses a straightforward chance to tackle him. At least he did one thing well during the game
Lovely hack on from Henshaw without breaking stride
Nah, the perfection of Murray’s box kick is the moment. Lydiate’s little flick pass very good – had nice touches of Parisse all about it – and Goode definitely made the best of an awful situation here (agree with Graf that he does not deserve the scapegoat sniping that happens on here frequently), but Murray’s kick was tactically brilliant, superbly aware, and perfectly executed. And it won the match without a doubt. So it edges them both imo.
But VJ – Lyds pass won the match, was superbly aware of Biggar cutting the better angle inside him and a moment of magic when 99% of forwards would have piled forward into the next tactic and missed the chance. Lyds pass for me.
True, but I voted against it purely because a lot of back-row forwards these days would have passed too – McCaw, Parisse, Heaslip, Faletau etc – and have shown deft skills doing so. So I just felt it wasn’t 100% to be unexpected from an all-round good footballer like Lydiate. It was a close toss-up, but the fact that even for the great kickers that sort of execution is so hard was what won it for Murray in my eyes. Placement, but height and timing too.
Goode is not international standard
that was a nice run but I remember it being the one thing he did well all game
Ireland should have made those tackles
Murray’s kick for the henshaw try for me
Can you name me an English back that did any better than Goode in this game? The Irish defence was superb, and this was a rare moment when (due to Goode’s evasiveness) they fell off those tackles.
Well yes, any of them because none of them gave away 6 turnovers!!
We said it before the game about how he was turned over more than any other player last year despite only playing 80 mins and what happens?
Once again we learnt that he does not have the speed or the physicality to play at this level
If he’s so slow why can’t the support keep up with him to clear out players so he doesn’t get turned over?
They would do if he didn’t go running off down dead ends!
It’s also the full back’s responsibility to make sure he doesn’t go running into trouble when the inevitably receive the ball in space.
No player, full back or otherwise, intentionally go running off down dead ends! They become dead ends when the defending team tackle the player and they go to ground. Is it not then the job of supporting players to clear out defenders to secure the ball?
Goode ran 135 metres with the ball and got turned over 6 times. Watson ran 38 metres with the ball and got turned over 3 times. Nowell ran 71 metres with the ball and also got turned over 3 times.
How far you ran with the ball is irrelevant. It’s where you run with it from and 2. Making 2 yards off the base of a scrum by busting tackles outweighs running a long kick back from behind your own line and then getting stopped dead by the oppo defence.
Some of Goode’s running was good (the “escape”), some of it was really, really bad decision making.
Oh come on – we all know meters made stats are ridiculous when analysing a full back. They regularly take the ball in far more space.
I’m not suggesting Goode goes running off down dead ends intentionally, quite clearly he doesn’t. However, he makes some strange decisions when it comes to running the ball back (particularly on Sunday) which consequently led to turnovers. Not sure how that can be defended.
This continual rubbish comment re Goode not being international class, agree that he may not be the best FB we have but he is more than capable of holding his own in international games as he has previously demonstrated. Would like to see Foden back in the mix once he has recovered from injury: he has plenty of skill, guile and speed- significantly more so than Brown
To me the “moment of the weekend” was the funny try from hitting the upright post and getting a lucky bounce – was it the culmination of talent and skill…no; was the opposition mostly asleep for it…yes, then why? cos it’s not something you get to see all that often and it made for a funny shock moment when it occurred.
Related to that another moment was Parisse slumping in joy at the award of the pen try. Keeps giving 100%. Keeps losing 99.9% but the joy of that 0.1% was written all over his face.
Absolutely Brighty. It was like the weight of a thousand suns had, all of a sudden, been lifted from his shoulders. Great moment.