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<blockquote data-quote="Peat" data-source="post: 614262" data-attributes="member: 42330"><p>Three main reasons</p><p></p><p>1) Sometimes the replacement is not ready. This one may be true; Flood still stands alone on a level of proven possible international performance.</p><p></p><p>2) Sometimes the outgoing guy is needed to steady the ship while new guys are brought in elsewhere. There's certainly an argument to be made there - we will have an inexperienced 12, a completely new 13 and ideally new wingers as well.</p><p></p><p>3) Establishing a culture of winning and momentum in the guys going forwards can sometimes be more valuable than caps for a new guy. There's an argument here too; everyone in the squad is good for two more years; pretty much everyone bar Parling, Johnson, Brown and Foden should be good for five more years; there's eighteen players where it's not overly optimistic to imagine them still contributing 8 years down the line.</p><p></p><p>I'm not saying these are conclusive arguments, but they do deserve consideration. The 2003 experience is not relevant. We are not, fingers crossed, about to undergo a massive rupture between union and clubs, or lose our biggest competitive edge, or lose a seminal coach, or suffer horrendously bad injury luck with guys who should have been the core of the next generation - Wilko, Thompson, Moody, Abbott, JSD, Woodman to pick the obvious ones - all of which helped caused what followed there.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>BAZINGA! Good point.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Who picks all 3 specialist fly-halves in a match day 23 anyway? Except for guys with insanely talented fly-halves, which is not us.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Peat, post: 614262, member: 42330"] Three main reasons 1) Sometimes the replacement is not ready. This one may be true; Flood still stands alone on a level of proven possible international performance. 2) Sometimes the outgoing guy is needed to steady the ship while new guys are brought in elsewhere. There's certainly an argument to be made there - we will have an inexperienced 12, a completely new 13 and ideally new wingers as well. 3) Establishing a culture of winning and momentum in the guys going forwards can sometimes be more valuable than caps for a new guy. There's an argument here too; everyone in the squad is good for two more years; pretty much everyone bar Parling, Johnson, Brown and Foden should be good for five more years; there's eighteen players where it's not overly optimistic to imagine them still contributing 8 years down the line. I'm not saying these are conclusive arguments, but they do deserve consideration. The 2003 experience is not relevant. We are not, fingers crossed, about to undergo a massive rupture between union and clubs, or lose our biggest competitive edge, or lose a seminal coach, or suffer horrendously bad injury luck with guys who should have been the core of the next generation - Wilko, Thompson, Moody, Abbott, JSD, Woodman to pick the obvious ones - all of which helped caused what followed there. BAZINGA! Good point. Who picks all 3 specialist fly-halves in a match day 23 anyway? Except for guys with insanely talented fly-halves, which is not us. [/QUOTE]
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