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2024 Guinness Six Nations
[2021 Six Nations] England vs Scotland (06/02/21)
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<blockquote data-quote="Ragey Erasmus" data-source="post: 1017029" data-attributes="member: 56232"><p>Looking at the England selections I think Jones is expecting a slog for at least the first half. Quite heavyweight. The real question is if we are still going to be kicking the leather off the ball? Farrells kicking all year was atrocious to put it nicely and we can't build a kicking game around a player who is kicking so badly. Unfortunately though I think we will be kicking and then looking to play a power game if we get to the 22. Lawrence is unlikely to ever touch the ball outside of Scotlands 22.</p><p></p><p>Seeing this, I think Scotland will be building a plan to prepare to deal with long kick and look at moving the ball across the field from where the kick landed as the English defence will likely bunch up in that part of the field. I can also see Scotland planning tactics to specifically counter what England do whilst England will simply play plan A and only plan A regardless of whatever happens on the field. Scotland could probably drop 5 players back to deal with kicks and we would still kick, butchering a few 5 on 1 overlaps in the process.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ragey Erasmus, post: 1017029, member: 56232"] Looking at the England selections I think Jones is expecting a slog for at least the first half. Quite heavyweight. The real question is if we are still going to be kicking the leather off the ball? Farrells kicking all year was atrocious to put it nicely and we can't build a kicking game around a player who is kicking so badly. Unfortunately though I think we will be kicking and then looking to play a power game if we get to the 22. Lawrence is unlikely to ever touch the ball outside of Scotlands 22. Seeing this, I think Scotland will be building a plan to prepare to deal with long kick and look at moving the ball across the field from where the kick landed as the English defence will likely bunch up in that part of the field. I can also see Scotland planning tactics to specifically counter what England do whilst England will simply play plan A and only plan A regardless of whatever happens on the field. Scotland could probably drop 5 players back to deal with kicks and we would still kick, butchering a few 5 on 1 overlaps in the process. [/QUOTE]
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