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[2014 EOYT] England v Samoa
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<blockquote data-quote="goodNumber10" data-source="post: 690947" data-attributes="member: 71068"><p>i don't really want to descend this into another Farrell is/isn't thread, but he really doesn't.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Again that's really not true mate. Good 10's need good options outside them; they can only pass to a guy in space if that guy is in space, he can only play flat if the ball is quick the defence is retreating and his runners are on the gain line. Bath have runners who play like that England don't. Instead we have have forwards who get in the 10's passing line - so Farrell, and Ford, ended up sitting deep and then just distribute to a wide runner coming onto the ball on his own - contrast that to someone like Heaslip who can playmake like a 1/5 for teams like Leinster and Ireland.</p><p></p><p>He can onyl do that because he has the options and everyone is on the same wavelength - which brings us back to attack coaching.</p><p></p><p>On sitting deep, watch the SA game again, focus on the line outs and the subsequent phases - if it's off the top ball farrell always hit's the gain line himself and then hits the next out runner to get a target, on subsequent phases he'll bring it to the line but seldom has anyone running any kind of angle off him. We saw Ford suffering from the same situation when he came on, lack of options having to take the ball into contact as well, and Eastmond also suffered from it on the couple of occasion where he stepped into 10.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>They do, but i don't think KE would have been playing anyway.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="goodNumber10, post: 690947, member: 71068"] i don't really want to descend this into another Farrell is/isn't thread, but he really doesn't. Again that's really not true mate. Good 10's need good options outside them; they can only pass to a guy in space if that guy is in space, he can only play flat if the ball is quick the defence is retreating and his runners are on the gain line. Bath have runners who play like that England don't. Instead we have have forwards who get in the 10's passing line - so Farrell, and Ford, ended up sitting deep and then just distribute to a wide runner coming onto the ball on his own - contrast that to someone like Heaslip who can playmake like a 1/5 for teams like Leinster and Ireland. He can onyl do that because he has the options and everyone is on the same wavelength - which brings us back to attack coaching. On sitting deep, watch the SA game again, focus on the line outs and the subsequent phases - if it's off the top ball farrell always hit's the gain line himself and then hits the next out runner to get a target, on subsequent phases he'll bring it to the line but seldom has anyone running any kind of angle off him. We saw Ford suffering from the same situation when he came on, lack of options having to take the ball into contact as well, and Eastmond also suffered from it on the couple of occasion where he stepped into 10. They do, but i don't think KE would have been playing anyway. [/QUOTE]
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