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2024 Guinness Six Nations
[2018 6 Nations] Round 5 : England v Ireland (17/03/2018)
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<blockquote data-quote="RoosTah" data-source="post: 896481" data-attributes="member: 12207"><p>Poms finished strong, but it was all too little too late. To be honest, throughout the entire series I've felt England have looked a bit robotic, predictable and lacking in intensity.</p><p></p><p>It's quite interesting in a lot of ways, as I remember hearing Phil Kearns at an event not long after Eddie was appointed say he thought Eddie would get a couple great years out of England, but that then they'd peter out because all his sides do. Eddie is just too intense, obsessive and relentless and whilst that's energizing for a new team at first, after a while the people around him progressively just get worked into the ground until they've got nothing left to give.</p><p></p><p>It's unfortunate, as if there was one country his intensity might have been able to be matched by the players longer term, it was Japan - a country where the game was benefiting greatly from his influence until he took up the England job.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RoosTah, post: 896481, member: 12207"] Poms finished strong, but it was all too little too late. To be honest, throughout the entire series I’ve felt England have looked a bit robotic, predictable and lacking in intensity. It’s quite interesting in a lot of ways, as I remember hearing Phil Kearns at an event not long after Eddie was appointed say he thought Eddie would get a couple great years out of England, but that then they’d peter out because all his sides do. Eddie is just too intense, obsessive and relentless and whilst that’s energizing for a new team at first, after a while the people around him progressively just get worked into the ground until they’ve got nothing left to give. It’s unfortunate, as if there was one country his intensity might have been able to be matched by the players longer term, it was Japan - a country where the game was benefiting greatly from his influence until he took up the England job. [/QUOTE]
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