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2024 Guinness Six Nations
[2017 RBS Six Nations] Round 3: Scotland vs Wales (25/02/2017)
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<blockquote data-quote="dullonien" data-source="post: 840465" data-attributes="member: 13739"><p>He's struggled with injury after initially coping well with international rugby imo. His injury issues may well prevent him from making the step-up, as it has with the likes of Eli Walker. But if he continues injury-free (came off injured again on the weekend), he deserves a place.</p><p></p><p>Ultimately, the argument of not introducing new players because winning is important holds no water whatsoever with me (I'm not saying that is what you are doing, but it's the only excuse Howley has). It's been obvious for a while that scraping wins against poor opposition (Argentina and SA especially in the AI's) despite mediocre performances was ultimately going to end in losses. It wasn't rocket science, and because Howley has been too scared to make changes (the obvious ones being not starting Keelan Giles or Sam Davies v Japan, and not putting faith in Steff Evans v England), he's forced himself back into a corner. We have learn't nothing by selecting the same out of form players and also missed an opportunity in finding out whether some of these youngsters can cut it. It's been an absolute waste of 2 years since the WC, whereas other teams have moved on, even the hapless French!</p><p></p><p>My guess is Howley will change nothing bar maybe a token bench place for Steff Evans/Keelan Giles; we'll lose our remaining 2 matches and slip to 8th/9th in the world rankings and risk ending up in another pool of death, and we still won't have learn't a damned thing!</p><p></p><p>I'm not looking for wholesale changes, because I think there's still a lot of quality in this team. A few changes in the backline + in tactics so that we can create more and at the least actually finish off the chances we're already creating, and things would look very different.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dullonien, post: 840465, member: 13739"] He's struggled with injury after initially coping well with international rugby imo. His injury issues may well prevent him from making the step-up, as it has with the likes of Eli Walker. But if he continues injury-free (came off injured again on the weekend), he deserves a place. Ultimately, the argument of not introducing new players because winning is important holds no water whatsoever with me (I'm not saying that is what you are doing, but it's the only excuse Howley has). It's been obvious for a while that scraping wins against poor opposition (Argentina and SA especially in the AI's) despite mediocre performances was ultimately going to end in losses. It wasn't rocket science, and because Howley has been too scared to make changes (the obvious ones being not starting Keelan Giles or Sam Davies v Japan, and not putting faith in Steff Evans v England), he's forced himself back into a corner. We have learn't nothing by selecting the same out of form players and also missed an opportunity in finding out whether some of these youngsters can cut it. It's been an absolute waste of 2 years since the WC, whereas other teams have moved on, even the hapless French! My guess is Howley will change nothing bar maybe a token bench place for Steff Evans/Keelan Giles; we'll lose our remaining 2 matches and slip to 8th/9th in the world rankings and risk ending up in another pool of death, and we still won't have learn't a damned thing! I'm not looking for wholesale changes, because I think there's still a lot of quality in this team. A few changes in the backline + in tactics so that we can create more and at the least actually finish off the chances we're already creating, and things would look very different. [/QUOTE]
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