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2024 Guinness Six Nations
[2021 Six Nations] England vs Scotland (06/02/21)
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<blockquote data-quote="Vieux Talonneur" data-source="post: 1016992" data-attributes="member: 73144"><p>Faz and Binny will be picked as long as they're still drawing breath.</p><p></p><p>Faz is a much better player than he showed in the Autumn. I can't help feeling he was playing to strict orders, but as a senior player and skipper he should be standing up to Jones / going off piste when the game situation demanded.</p><p></p><p>In the Times the other day Matthew Syed was writing about Cipriani wondering how he'd have turned out under different management. Part of his argument was how Ferguson had got the best out of the previously unmanageable Eric Cantona by embracing him for what he was rather than trying to control him. It's a very fair point. Anyhow in that article he described Jones as "a nice enough guy but has quite a brittle ego that struggles with other strong people". That chimed with me and and while Jones' seeming 'my way or the highway' approach will get results (and should do with the talent at his disposal) I don't think under his leadership we will ever consistently be greater than the sum of our parts. Naturally I hope to be proved very wrong on that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vieux Talonneur, post: 1016992, member: 73144"] Faz and Binny will be picked as long as they’re still drawing breath. Faz is a much better player than he showed in the Autumn. I can’t help feeling he was playing to strict orders, but as a senior player and skipper he should be standing up to Jones / going off piste when the game situation demanded. In the Times the other day Matthew Syed was writing about Cipriani wondering how he’d have turned out under different management. Part of his argument was how Ferguson had got the best out of the previously unmanageable Eric Cantona by embracing him for what he was rather than trying to control him. It’s a very fair point. Anyhow in that article he described Jones as “a nice enough guy but has quite a brittle ego that struggles with other strong people”. That chimed with me and and while Jones’ seeming ‘my way or the highway’ approach will get results (and should do with the talent at his disposal) I don’t think under his leadership we will ever consistently be greater than the sum of our parts. Naturally I hope to be proved very wrong on that. [/QUOTE]
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