RWC warmup - Ireland v England
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An aspect of the England coaching that has been vexing me is the box kick defence we employ. If you can call it that. Most teams, Wales in particular do this well, once the kick is in the air there is a screen of players retreating to assist the catcher but their real job of course is to protect him from the kick chaser getting a decent hit on him. I dislike this defence as to me it is organised obstruction, but it is legal and effective. England do not seem to employ this defence, or if they do it is very disorganised to the extent it is useless. I’d have thought this would be an important thing to have in the armoury and pretty easy to fix.
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There seems zero confidence at the moment. The I-don't-want-to-be here body language from the off was telling as they looked to be beaten from the start.
Don't think it's all doom and gloom though. They performed better when down to 14 men and fighting to avoid a serious shellacking so there's real potential there.
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England have the cattle but those cattle don't perform at their best at Borthball
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@Victor-Meldrew said in RWC warmup - Ireland v England:
There seems zero confidence at the moment. The I-don't-want-to-be here body language from the off was telling as they looked to be beaten from the start.
Don't think it's all doom and gloom though. They performed better when down to 14 men and fighting to avoid a serious shellacking so there's real potential there.
Re the second para, we’ve seen over the last 6 months or so, that England CAN play but it seems limited to the final 10 minutes when its is too late. It’s like they have Carte Blanche to rip up the playbook when we are already fucked, but if the players off the cuff approach is repetitively more effective than the game plan, then you have to look at the coaching.
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@Catogrande said in RWC warmup - Ireland v England:
It’s like they have carte Blanche to rip up the playbook when we are already fucked, but if the players off the cuff approach is repetitively more effective than the game plan, then you have to look at the coaching.
Looks like the change from Comical Eddie to Borthwick has been a lot more problematical but what momentum there is looks to be backwards. It's not as if you can see them trying things and not coming off, there's just built-in lethargy.
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Feels dirty to agree with Woodwhinge, but he's spot-on here.
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@sparky said in RWC warmup - Ireland v England:
Terrible technique by Vunipola and rightfully a Red Card.
Reminded me of Nonu doing a spear tackle in Ireland after the BOD Lions saga. Tone deaf foul, super dumb on so many levels.
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@Stargazer said in RWC warmup - Ireland v England:
Another fucking joke
6 - good record - sorry = 4
4 - Tackle school = 3
NOT 2 YOU FUCKING IMBECILES
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@MiketheSnow said in RWC warmup - Ireland v England:
@Stargazer said in RWC warmup - Ireland v England:
6 - good record - sorry - early guilty plea? = 3
3 - Tackle school = 2
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@Stargazer said in RWC warmup - Ireland v England:
@MiketheSnow said in RWC warmup - Ireland v England:
@Stargazer said in RWC warmup - Ireland v England:
6 - good record - sorry - early guilty plea? = 3
3 - Tackle school = 2
That’s even fucking worse
