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<blockquote data-quote="Ragey Erasmus" data-source="post: 938452" data-attributes="member: 56232"><p>My main concern through this tournament is how Jones' pig-headedness has got so great he will actually handicap the team to prevent playing players. Against Wales he didn't empty the bench, against Scotland he made all his subs well after the game had slipped away. There is talk about the half backs not adapting (rightly so) but Jones seems determined to ignore what is happening on the field and doesn't make substitutions when the team are clearly tiring and being torn apart by fresh players. 5 minute subs are usually pointless and were all that saved us from a loss against Scotland.</p><p></p><p>It's so weird as when he started the subs were an integral part of the team and we played as a 23 player unit, now Jones doesn't seem to care about anyone outside the starting 15 and is trying to flog them like crazy through training and then keeping them on as long as possible. It's idiotic.</p><p></p><p>For the players, I've argued over and over that Farrell is not Mr Iceman and the claims they he could handle a game on the back foot better than Ford were nonsense, I think this has shown it again. Every embarrassment England have faced has been with Farrell at 10. How many more embarrassments do we need before people will accept that he cannot handle pressure? If the pack is on top then he is fine, same as most 10's. If the pack is struggling, he does aimless kicking, throws intercepts, gets charged down, does no arms tackles, flies out the line, throws hospital passes and actively makes things even worse. Not to worry though, Ford will concede maybe 8m in the entire game in tackles he still completes so Farrell it is.</p><p></p><p>Youngs is too slow, lacks game management and blows way too hot and cold. Like Farrell he relies almost entirely on the pack dominating and doesn't function well at all when they aren't. Both of them don't adapt under pressure and just do exactly the same things but worse. Once momentum is gone, neither of them are able to steady the game and get it back under control and more often than not, will cause more of a momentum shift with idiotic mistakes and aimlessly giving the ball away. Jones really has hampered England by not developing any alternatives in 4 years. </p><p></p><p>Our defence against Scotland was laughable... It's not even like we were being beaten by some well worked moves, it's people just falling off front on tackles. Where was the effective blitz against Ireland? We reverted to the passive defence that cost us in 2018 yet retained the falling off tackles aspect, the worst of both worlds. It is absolutely unacceptable for a side to be that **** poor at basic tackling technique. The Welsh very rarely fall off tackles or leave gaping holes right in the middle of the defence.</p><p></p><p>Mentally we need to get a proper sports psychologist in. It's been shown over and over in all sports that mentality is just as important as physicality. We had the right attitude against Ireland but in all the rest it looks like everyone just switches off and ignores whatever they have been coached. Unless this mental frailty and tendency to go absolutely to pieces is addressed, we could be looking at crashing out in the group stages again.</p><p></p><p>Positives: Mako was phenomenal and our back row is the best it's been in years. May looking like the real deal, Big Joe a good prospect for the future and it looks like we have a working centre partnership with Slade and Manu. Also staggering to think that we just set the 2nd highest number of tries score in 6 nations history...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ragey Erasmus, post: 938452, member: 56232"] My main concern through this tournament is how Jones' pig-headedness has got so great he will actually handicap the team to prevent playing players. Against Wales he didn't empty the bench, against Scotland he made all his subs well after the game had slipped away. There is talk about the half backs not adapting (rightly so) but Jones seems determined to ignore what is happening on the field and doesn't make substitutions when the team are clearly tiring and being torn apart by fresh players. 5 minute subs are usually pointless and were all that saved us from a loss against Scotland. It's so weird as when he started the subs were an integral part of the team and we played as a 23 player unit, now Jones doesn't seem to care about anyone outside the starting 15 and is trying to flog them like crazy through training and then keeping them on as long as possible. It's idiotic. For the players, I've argued over and over that Farrell is not Mr Iceman and the claims they he could handle a game on the back foot better than Ford were nonsense, I think this has shown it again. Every embarrassment England have faced has been with Farrell at 10. How many more embarrassments do we need before people will accept that he cannot handle pressure? If the pack is on top then he is fine, same as most 10's. If the pack is struggling, he does aimless kicking, throws intercepts, gets charged down, does no arms tackles, flies out the line, throws hospital passes and actively makes things even worse. Not to worry though, Ford will concede maybe 8m in the entire game in tackles he still completes so Farrell it is. Youngs is too slow, lacks game management and blows way too hot and cold. Like Farrell he relies almost entirely on the pack dominating and doesn't function well at all when they aren't. Both of them don't adapt under pressure and just do exactly the same things but worse. Once momentum is gone, neither of them are able to steady the game and get it back under control and more often than not, will cause more of a momentum shift with idiotic mistakes and aimlessly giving the ball away. Jones really has hampered England by not developing any alternatives in 4 years. Our defence against Scotland was laughable... It's not even like we were being beaten by some well worked moves, it's people just falling off front on tackles. Where was the effective blitz against Ireland? We reverted to the passive defence that cost us in 2018 yet retained the falling off tackles aspect, the worst of both worlds. It is absolutely unacceptable for a side to be that **** poor at basic tackling technique. The Welsh very rarely fall off tackles or leave gaping holes right in the middle of the defence. Mentally we need to get a proper sports psychologist in. It's been shown over and over in all sports that mentality is just as important as physicality. We had the right attitude against Ireland but in all the rest it looks like everyone just switches off and ignores whatever they have been coached. Unless this mental frailty and tendency to go absolutely to pieces is addressed, we could be looking at crashing out in the group stages again. Positives: Mako was phenomenal and our back row is the best it's been in years. May looking like the real deal, Big Joe a good prospect for the future and it looks like we have a working centre partnership with Slade and Manu. Also staggering to think that we just set the 2nd highest number of tries score in 6 nations history... [/QUOTE]
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