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[2017 RBS Six Nations] Round 3: England vs Italy (26/02/2017)
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<blockquote data-quote="Ragey Erasmus" data-source="post: 840679" data-attributes="member: 56232"><p>Coaches criticising the ref is a huge no-no unless the ref has genuinely had an absolute shocker, which Poite didn't. Refs can impact the game and you don not want to be having a go at them. Another coach though? What can they do? Gob back or try to get their team to beat yours. It has drawn attention away. What are people talking about after the game:</p><p></p><p>1) The non-ruck tactic</p><p>2) England's inability to deal with the non-ruck tactic</p><p>3) Eddie Jones being what he is.</p><p></p><p>There is little to no analysis of the fact that England were struggling because they were simply playing awful, look at the number of mistakes we made that had nothing to do with the Italians tactics. If anything other sides may look at that and think the way to beat England is to try gimmicky things when an objective analysis would reveal that the Italians tactics didn't stop 6 tries being put on them. For comparison last year we put 5 tries past them, the year before it was 6, the year before it was 7. Everyone has walked away thinking their little trick caused England to score far fewer tries than normal when actually it didn't, the inaccurate kicking is what kept the score down. 2 penalties that didn't make touch as well. Also some of those tries England scored had some pretty incredible handling in them but all that will have been ignored. Everyone is looking at England now the same way they were looking at them after the world cup and the result may be the same. If Scotland and Ireland underestimate us and we finally click, it could be pretty convincing. The common consensus is that we're not all that good and have been humiliated.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ragey Erasmus, post: 840679, member: 56232"] Coaches criticising the ref is a huge no-no unless the ref has genuinely had an absolute shocker, which Poite didn't. Refs can impact the game and you don not want to be having a go at them. Another coach though? What can they do? Gob back or try to get their team to beat yours. It has drawn attention away. What are people talking about after the game: 1) The non-ruck tactic 2) England's inability to deal with the non-ruck tactic 3) Eddie Jones being what he is. There is little to no analysis of the fact that England were struggling because they were simply playing awful, look at the number of mistakes we made that had nothing to do with the Italians tactics. If anything other sides may look at that and think the way to beat England is to try gimmicky things when an objective analysis would reveal that the Italians tactics didn't stop 6 tries being put on them. For comparison last year we put 5 tries past them, the year before it was 6, the year before it was 7. Everyone has walked away thinking their little trick caused England to score far fewer tries than normal when actually it didn't, the inaccurate kicking is what kept the score down. 2 penalties that didn't make touch as well. Also some of those tries England scored had some pretty incredible handling in them but all that will have been ignored. Everyone is looking at England now the same way they were looking at them after the world cup and the result may be the same. If Scotland and Ireland underestimate us and we finally click, it could be pretty convincing. The common consensus is that we're not all that good and have been humiliated. [/QUOTE]
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