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<blockquote data-quote="BPM" data-source="post: 1096750" data-attributes="member: 59968"><p>I'm not sure that's entirely fair. Eddie can't pick what we don't have.</p><p></p><p>The Smith/Farrell axis has not been great so far, but I can totally understand why he'd want to try it. FWIW, I'd like to persevere with it for the AIs, as the only likely alternative is Farrell at 10 which is IMO, a retrograde step.</p><p></p><p>Not only that, the injuries to Tuilagi, Slade and Kelly pretty much necessitated it anyway. Porter and Dingwall haven't played a lot of rugby at 12 and arguably neither is good enough to be a test starter anyway. IMO, Porter looked out of his depth in his <em>preferred</em> position so I'm glad we didn't pick him in a less familiar role. Perhaps we could have taken Ojomoh, but he'd barely played in the second half of the season and realistically wouldn't have been starting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BPM, post: 1096750, member: 59968"] I’m not sure that’s entirely fair. Eddie can’t pick what we don’t have. The Smith/Farrell axis has not been great so far, but I can totally understand why he’d want to try it. FWIW, I’d like to persevere with it for the AIs, as the only likely alternative is Farrell at 10 which is IMO, a retrograde step. Not only that, the injuries to Tuilagi, Slade and Kelly pretty much necessitated it anyway. Porter and Dingwall haven’t played a lot of rugby at 12 and arguably neither is good enough to be a test starter anyway. IMO, Porter looked out of his depth in his [I]preferred[/I] position so I’m glad we didn’t pick him in a less familiar role. Perhaps we could have taken Ojomoh, but he’d barely played in the second half of the season and realistically wouldn’t have been starting. [/QUOTE]
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