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"England has the quantity, but Wales has the quality". Discuss.
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<blockquote data-quote="Ragey Erasmus" data-source="post: 1046870" data-attributes="member: 56232"><p>It's played to a high level in many countries and yet, they win. We have won world cups in many sports but I can't think of a sport where we have won it more than once. That's the point, we are consistently nearly there and statistically a team as consistently close as us should actually win far more often than we do. This is true in rugby, in football, in cricket you name it. If anything being consistently up there and not winning is worse than winning but then not having a hope in hell other times. Ultimately English sport as a whole needs to get the monkey off our back of basically being afraid to excel. It's cultural. The Lancaster years sum it up perfectly, 4 2nd places in a row in the 6N, pretty good performances across the board then fall to pieces when it really mattered.</p><p></p><p>Jones sorted it out when he first came in but now we have slipped back to that old mental fragility. When Jones first arrived it was never write England off as they will fight to the end, now it's we can't write any team off as we have repeatedly thrown away leads and are setting records for how much we implode.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ragey Erasmus, post: 1046870, member: 56232"] It's played to a high level in many countries and yet, they win. We have won world cups in many sports but I can't think of a sport where we have won it more than once. That's the point, we are consistently nearly there and statistically a team as consistently close as us should actually win far more often than we do. This is true in rugby, in football, in cricket you name it. If anything being consistently up there and not winning is worse than winning but then not having a hope in hell other times. Ultimately English sport as a whole needs to get the monkey off our back of basically being afraid to excel. It's cultural. The Lancaster years sum it up perfectly, 4 2nd places in a row in the 6N, pretty good performances across the board then fall to pieces when it really mattered. Jones sorted it out when he first came in but now we have slipped back to that old mental fragility. When Jones first arrived it was never write England off as they will fight to the end, now it's we can't write any team off as we have repeatedly thrown away leads and are setting records for how much we implode. [/QUOTE]
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