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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: 918813" data-attributes="member: 41553"><p>Not currently without significantly compromising on actual talent/quality. We do seem to have struggled to develop some truly brutish forwards for the last decade or so. Plenty of feist and aggression from our front row forwards, but in terms of back 5 I can't remember the last English player I watched and thought "what a monster". Even Lawes is actually quite slight for a lock and made his name smashing 10s, not 8s. Always feel a little bit jealous of NZ having two giant locks, SA having giants everywhere and Ireland with their back row animals.</p><p></p><p>That being said, we clearly have a lot of athletic and talented players, particularly at lock. Just feels like the team is lacking a bit of the grit from back in the days of Johnson, Grewcock, Moody, Worsley. I'd love for a team to be genuinely scared of our pack, but feel like the days of that might be gone. With that in mind + Halloween around the corner, England's scariest potential pack:</p><p></p><p>1. Genge</p><p>2. LCD</p><p>3. Sinckler</p><p>4. Stooke</p><p>5. Lawes</p><p>6. Itoje</p><p>7. Rhodes</p><p>8. Vunipola</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mr Ruggleby, post: 918813, member: 41553"] Not currently without significantly compromising on actual talent/quality. We do seem to have struggled to develop some truly brutish forwards for the last decade or so. Plenty of feist and aggression from our front row forwards, but in terms of back 5 I can't remember the last English player I watched and thought "what a monster". Even Lawes is actually quite slight for a lock and made his name smashing 10s, not 8s. Always feel a little bit jealous of NZ having two giant locks, SA having giants everywhere and Ireland with their back row animals. That being said, we clearly have a lot of athletic and talented players, particularly at lock. Just feels like the team is lacking a bit of the grit from back in the days of Johnson, Grewcock, Moody, Worsley. I'd love for a team to be genuinely scared of our pack, but feel like the days of that might be gone. With that in mind + Halloween around the corner, England's scariest potential pack: 1. Genge 2. LCD 3. Sinckler 4. Stooke 5. Lawes 6. Itoje 7. Rhodes 8. Vunipola [/QUOTE]
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