Comments on: Two England XVs to beat Australia

By: Jacob

Jacob — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 07:29:39 +0000

Slade is an option at 12, but not next to JJ. Way too lightwight to continually force ourselves over the gainline.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 07:28:43 +0000

I half agree with you. SL has made some horrendous calls this WC, dating back to Hartley and ending with a dreadfully stunted center partnership against Wales.

However, who other center options are there?

Burrell – in hindsight I would have yes, but he has always looked nothing more than average at test level.
Twelvetrees – contact error machine despite having a nice skill set.
Eastmond – just no. Nice feet but distribution is pretty poor, he offers little gainline threat down the 12 channel at test level,
Tuilagi – injured/banned

There is then a bunch of top young players like Sam Hill, Stephenson, Devoto that look good but aren’t even necessarily first choice at clubs yet, so very raw.

By: teecee

teecee — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 23:17:52 +0000

Jacob, SL brought about this farce with his original squad selection,he had plenty of choices and chose to cock it.

By: teecee

teecee — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 23:14:54 +0000

Me too Benjit and F—–g angry. Bridesmaids at our own wedding!

By: Stu

Stu — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 20:46:57 +0000

Slades not even an option to carry on kicking tee for SL

By: Benjit

Benjit — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 20:22:38 +0000

Credit. In. The. Bank. FFS.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 19:43:52 +0000

It seems I’m the only one who sees Slade as an option at 12.

By: Dazza

Dazza — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 15:57:51 +0000

Interesting that you’ve both picked George for the bench, along with nearly everyone who’s selected their England team on various posts, and yet SL still has Webber on the bench!?!?!?!?!?!

By: Neil Morgan

Neil Morgan — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 11:49:02 +0000

With the caveat “which will see England into the quarter finals”.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 08:07:01 +0000

I have very similar feeling on Barritt to you; but I don’t feel like SL had a choice. Whilst Barritt is about as useless as they come in attack, Burgess just can not start this fixture, his positioning is just too poor.

I think I mentioned elsewhere that Burrell might have been ideal for this fixture.

By: Benjit

Benjit — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 22:35:59 +0000

So the Mail are reporting a Farrell/ Barritt/ Joseph axis. Words fail me. If JJ sees any ball it’s likely to be sh*t.

I feel so disillusioned with this team and this world cup.

By: Staggy

Staggy — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 22:04:26 +0000

Farrell at 12 Hosie – another player out of position! We really need Barritt or Burgess there as they are our two 12s. Shame on me possibly, but I think Barritt is probably our best answer to start and bring Burgess on as an impact sub. Burgess is the better player in most ways but I worry about his positioning, and the Aussies could exploit that. Is Greenwood fit? Maybe that wasn’t such a bad idea!