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Sam Burgess U Turn
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<blockquote data-quote="The Jones Boy" data-source="post: 771289" data-attributes="member: 70721"><p>He could be if you had a coach with half a brain and no Andy Farrell spending all his time trying to shoe horn his son into the starting line up and keep Cipriani out of the picture.</p><p>Englands midfield is mediocre at best.</p><p>Any international team that starts Brad Barritt as a regular is never going to make a dent in a marshmallow on attack. Its not like Burgess had a lot of competition.</p><p>He also would have been your best loose forward as well at 6, 7 or 8.</p><p>If you want to compete at international level , listen to even old has beens like Clive Woodward and they will all say the same mantra, you need SPEED at the breakdown. Not one of the regular starting English loose forward trio had an ounce of gas to compare with the Aussies or the Kiwi's. Burgess was bigger than most of them if not all of them and twice as fast, and he tackled harder. He looked the business against France and thats why they picked him with the resident Leicester Samoan out of the picture.</p><p>He was crapped on from a great height by the English press and you were winning when he was dragged.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Jones Boy, post: 771289, member: 70721"] He could be if you had a coach with half a brain and no Andy Farrell spending all his time trying to shoe horn his son into the starting line up and keep Cipriani out of the picture. Englands midfield is mediocre at best. Any international team that starts Brad Barritt as a regular is never going to make a dent in a marshmallow on attack. Its not like Burgess had a lot of competition. He also would have been your best loose forward as well at 6, 7 or 8. If you want to compete at international level , listen to even old has beens like Clive Woodward and they will all say the same mantra, you need SPEED at the breakdown. Not one of the regular starting English loose forward trio had an ounce of gas to compare with the Aussies or the Kiwi's. Burgess was bigger than most of them if not all of them and twice as fast, and he tackled harder. He looked the business against France and thats why they picked him with the resident Leicester Samoan out of the picture. He was crapped on from a great height by the English press and you were winning when he was dragged. [/QUOTE]
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