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<blockquote data-quote="Ragey Erasmus" data-source="post: 1064559" data-attributes="member: 56232"><p>Put it this way, imagine SA had gone for the corner rather than the posts. That could have been painful and there would have been sod all we could have done to stop it. The wins were impressive but the issue stills remains, Jones is a reactive coach. He refuses to recognise or address problems until they become so huge we start losing left right and centre. </p><p></p><p>- 15 was an issue that has been solved after Daly was caught out multiple times and with a player who so clearly could address the problem it would be madness to leave them out</p><p>- Farrell at 12 and the general problem with how he fits in the side has never been addressed, this will change if he doesn't walk back into the side but again it took injury to address it</p><p>- Billy V being off form for years has half been addressed with the Curry experiment but he hasn't put a proper 8 there</p><p>- 9 is such a dead horse at this stage it is laughable. Yes I know there has been bad luck with injuries but he has compounded that bad luck by using aging players who will not be part of the future as the alternatives (Wiggy and Heinz) rather than picking another scrumhalf to replace the injured one. At no point were Simpson, Robson, Spencer and Care all injured at the same time.</p><p>- Discipline still not addressed</p><p></p><p>It's not like new problems are cropping up, these are the same problems that have been there for years. I recall when we were still winning but poorly towards the tail end of the unbeaten run at the start of the Jones era we were told it's ok as we are still winning, then it went to pieces. The same again in 2019. There are problems that were around in those 2 awful years that still have not been fixed and were still there in that SA game, nearly costing us. Yes it's good to get the win but can anyone say hand on heart they are confident England will go into the next game and not catastrophically **** the bed? We have lacked the ability to maintain control of games and that has been an issue since 2017 and has gradually been getting worse, WC against NZ being the exception.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ragey Erasmus, post: 1064559, member: 56232"] Put it this way, imagine SA had gone for the corner rather than the posts. That could have been painful and there would have been sod all we could have done to stop it. The wins were impressive but the issue stills remains, Jones is a reactive coach. He refuses to recognise or address problems until they become so huge we start losing left right and centre. - 15 was an issue that has been solved after Daly was caught out multiple times and with a player who so clearly could address the problem it would be madness to leave them out - Farrell at 12 and the general problem with how he fits in the side has never been addressed, this will change if he doesn't walk back into the side but again it took injury to address it - Billy V being off form for years has half been addressed with the Curry experiment but he hasn't put a proper 8 there - 9 is such a dead horse at this stage it is laughable. Yes I know there has been bad luck with injuries but he has compounded that bad luck by using aging players who will not be part of the future as the alternatives (Wiggy and Heinz) rather than picking another scrumhalf to replace the injured one. At no point were Simpson, Robson, Spencer and Care all injured at the same time. - Discipline still not addressed It's not like new problems are cropping up, these are the same problems that have been there for years. I recall when we were still winning but poorly towards the tail end of the unbeaten run at the start of the Jones era we were told it's ok as we are still winning, then it went to pieces. The same again in 2019. There are problems that were around in those 2 awful years that still have not been fixed and were still there in that SA game, nearly costing us. Yes it's good to get the win but can anyone say hand on heart they are confident England will go into the next game and not catastrophically **** the bed? We have lacked the ability to maintain control of games and that has been an issue since 2017 and has gradually been getting worse, WC against NZ being the exception. [/QUOTE]
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