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[2020 Six Nations] England Squad
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<blockquote data-quote="Pieter Steph du Teague" data-source="post: 986583" data-attributes="member: 72520"><p>I mean... okay, but what happens when we do come up against the best? Clearly it's not that simple to recognise a dominant scrum at international level or EJ never would have selected Mako in the final - he said so himself. So it's not like we can just swap Mako out for matches against the best scrummaging teams, and we can't exactly just wait for the game to happen to find out whether or not we'll be beaten as by then it's too late. If Mako can't hold his own against the best then he shouldn't be in the side. It's a props job to scrummage, not to be a prominent ball carrier. If we lack prominent ball carriers then that's a back row issue, not a prop issue.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pieter Steph du Teague, post: 986583, member: 72520"] I mean... okay, but what happens when we do come up against the best? Clearly it's not that simple to recognise a dominant scrum at international level or EJ never would have selected Mako in the final - he said so himself. So it's not like we can just swap Mako out for matches against the best scrummaging teams, and we can't exactly just wait for the game to happen to find out whether or not we'll be beaten as by then it's too late. If Mako can't hold his own against the best then he shouldn't be in the side. It's a props job to scrummage, not to be a prominent ball carrier. If we lack prominent ball carriers then that's a back row issue, not a prop issue. [/QUOTE]
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