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<blockquote data-quote="j&#039;nuh" data-source="post: 463949" data-attributes="member: 55446"><p>I'm not so sure. I don't think there was any point in the tournament when we had clean, go-forward ball. It ended up being broken back row play with rucks taking years to be cleared out, followed by pedestrian scrum-half distribution, followed by a deep standing, slow 10 who <em>never passed</em> (what good is support lines when you're not gonna get the ball?), followed by Tindall. I'm not sure you can blame Ashton for not creating himself any opportunities when there wasn't any kind of foundation for any creative play to begin with. The last time the players in front of Ashton played really well, he scored 4 tries. As it happens, he became the top joint try-scorer (despite playing fewer matches than most of the other top wingers) whilst in a team which wasn't working. Difficult to blame him, I think.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, it's too early to tell. Remember that whilst Roberts is on fire at the minute - easily the second best 12 in the world - he has had troubles in between this patch of good form and that of 2008/09. It doesn't take a long time for a player to go from being in a world XV to being lucky to make their international team.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="j'nuh, post: 463949, member: 55446"] I'm not so sure. I don't think there was any point in the tournament when we had clean, go-forward ball. It ended up being broken back row play with rucks taking years to be cleared out, followed by pedestrian scrum-half distribution, followed by a deep standing, slow 10 who [I]never passed[/I] (what good is support lines when you're not gonna get the ball?), followed by Tindall. I'm not sure you can blame Ashton for not creating himself any opportunities when there wasn't any kind of foundation for any creative play to begin with. The last time the players in front of Ashton played really well, he scored 4 tries. As it happens, he became the top joint try-scorer (despite playing fewer matches than most of the other top wingers) whilst in a team which wasn't working. Difficult to blame him, I think. Anyway, it's too early to tell. Remember that whilst Roberts is on fire at the minute - easily the second best 12 in the world - he has had troubles in between this patch of good form and that of 2008/09. It doesn't take a long time for a player to go from being in a world XV to being lucky to make their international team. [/QUOTE]
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