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Got to be Willis or B Curry at 7 if you’re playing Dombrandt or Simmonds at 8. Don’t think the back row will be at all balanced with Earl at 7 with those 8s, no matter who you play at 6. Preference for me would be to play Willis and B Curry at 6/7 then Dombrandt at 8. Earl in 20 shirt. Think...

Van Rensburg out, replaced by Rob Du Preez with Connor Doherty to the bench. Sale now fielding 3 centres and two fly halves across the back line... real lack of pace

Eddie Jones has already mentioned that NZs game is based on their lineout prowess, with 3 specialist jumpers in locks + Reed. NZ retain their ball and then if they managed to steal opposition, can really turn the screw with counter attacking rugby. In the 1/4, as soon as O’Mahoney stole a...

Murray and Sexton aren’t the best half back combination in the world right now, they haven’t been since 17/18. I expect the Irish to crash out in the quarters as they normally do.

And that’s why it should have been a penalty. The law states you have to wrap your arms. He shouldn’t have been making the hit if he couldn’t do so.

Williams isn’t very good at tackling or defending in general is he...

Fair enough! I still thought the whole review was painful and such bad communication.

I thought it was a penalty try and yellow card all day long in regards to the Zebo incident. He isn’t attempting to catch the ball and all this chat about his hand being underneath the ball as if he is trying to control it is rubbish...

Mattia Bellini I think?

For the RWC I reckon it’ll mostly be as is, maybe including T.Curry, Genge and Robson to the mix and losing Haskell, Hepburn and Wigglesworth. Normally it’s a 31 man squad? Can see Tuilagi, Genge and a Curry bro to make the cut. Cipriani will highly likely not be plying his trade in the AP...

I’d take Solomona over May. He’s had some serious minutes too. Rather try someone fresh

No Solomona?

Then you get Slade, who could be a 12.5, very confusing.

I think we are just going to go around in circles. No, as a 7 I would not expect him to be hitting the same amount of rucks as Haskell or Robshaw because that is not his primary focus. They are blindside flankers, he is not. I’d expect you’d see him hitting rucks, but also doing lots of...

I can’t personally go ‘here is X vs Sale and he had a real stand out game hitting rucks’. That’s because there’s never been an issue of him not doing it so I’m not spending a match thinking, ‘hey, Wonder whether Ben has cleared a few men out?’.

Love a 6.5. Haven’t seen one in a while. I’d prefer him to go the way of Hooper but I just fear he won’t.

Fatigue, failure to adapt, static runners off poor ball and the vicious cycle that causes. Curry doesn’t not support and he actively hits rucks. The failure of the team this 6N shouldn’t preclude the selection of a specialist opensides who could bring a whole new threat to the opposition.

I think you’d have him over Wallace at Quins and maybe Brussow at Saints.

Fair enough, I just recall him being less effective at Gloucester than he was at Worcester. Maybe I had my judgement clouded by the way his time at Gloucester came to an end.

I think the point being made is England need to find a 7 who doesn’t just clear rucks and essentially be an extra blindside type player. There are 7 other players in that pack. The locks and 6, the hooker and a prop, can all work to do what you’re asking the openside to do. England haven’t...