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[2015 RWC] Warm Up Match: England vs Ireland (05/09/15)
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<blockquote data-quote="msf" data-source="post: 744469" data-attributes="member: 72153"><p>I´ve just watched the game, and since I am usually critical of Lancaster, I should be fair to him for once and say that he does seem to have brought us to the world cup with a consistent game plan, unlike Johnson in the last one, where the attacking style England had been playing was jettisoned when Johnson turned to Wilkinson rather than Flood. Lancaster, however, has stuck with the attacking style that he has developed over the last 18 months or so, and I don´t see him changing now unless we lose one of the big games in the group rather badly, as we did against the Springboks in 2007.</p><p></p><p>My concerns are with the fragility of that game plan. If Ben Youngs is targeted, as Ireland have done in the past but failed to do on Saturday, we will be much less threatening in attack. As for the lineout and scrum, it seems that we have compromised this in the quest for an attacking game, demoting Attwood for fitter and more mobile locks, and backing Tom Youngs as the replacement for Hartley.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="msf, post: 744469, member: 72153"] I´ve just watched the game, and since I am usually critical of Lancaster, I should be fair to him for once and say that he does seem to have brought us to the world cup with a consistent game plan, unlike Johnson in the last one, where the attacking style England had been playing was jettisoned when Johnson turned to Wilkinson rather than Flood. Lancaster, however, has stuck with the attacking style that he has developed over the last 18 months or so, and I don´t see him changing now unless we lose one of the big games in the group rather badly, as we did against the Springboks in 2007. My concerns are with the fragility of that game plan. If Ben Youngs is targeted, as Ireland have done in the past but failed to do on Saturday, we will be much less threatening in attack. As for the lineout and scrum, it seems that we have compromised this in the quest for an attacking game, demoting Attwood for fitter and more mobile locks, and backing Tom Youngs as the replacement for Hartley. [/QUOTE]
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