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[2018 November Tests] England v South Africa (3/10/18)
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<blockquote data-quote="Mr Ruggleby" data-source="post: 918737" data-attributes="member: 41553"><p>I think I need to stress again that in terms of individual assessment, I think both Curry and Underhill are excellent players. </p><p></p><p>That being said, neither of them offer a ball carrying threat against an organized international defense and neither of them can be considered overly physical compared to the players they are going up against. I can only think of two international teams that have successfully employed two "small" flankers. One is Australia and one of those "small flankers" was David Pocock who is 6ft and 18st! They also played most of their games in conditions that were very different to Twickenham in November. The other team is Scotland in this last 6 nations vs England with Barclay (6'3, 16st) and Watson (6'1, 16st) and that was a performance that they have not really managed to replicate again, against a team significantly less physical than SA and in a game in which the breakdown was refereed quite differently to any other games had been in that tournament/season.</p><p></p><p>They are both great players, I would have one or the other as my first choice 7, but there is not going to be a place for both of them in a pack that doesn't include both Vunipola brothers to make up for the lack of ballast.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mr Ruggleby, post: 918737, member: 41553"] I think I need to stress again that in terms of individual assessment, I think both Curry and Underhill are excellent players. That being said, neither of them offer a ball carrying threat against an organized international defense and neither of them can be considered overly physical compared to the players they are going up against. I can only think of two international teams that have successfully employed two "small" flankers. One is Australia and one of those "small flankers" was David Pocock who is 6ft and 18st! They also played most of their games in conditions that were very different to Twickenham in November. The other team is Scotland in this last 6 nations vs England with Barclay (6'3, 16st) and Watson (6'1, 16st) and that was a performance that they have not really managed to replicate again, against a team significantly less physical than SA and in a game in which the breakdown was refereed quite differently to any other games had been in that tournament/season. They are both great players, I would have one or the other as my first choice 7, but there is not going to be a place for both of them in a pack that doesn't include both Vunipola brothers to make up for the lack of ballast. [/QUOTE]
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