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<blockquote data-quote="gingergenius" data-source="post: 288569"><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jethro @ Nov 20 2009, 12:09 AM) <a href="http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=422105" target="_blank"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div></p><p></p><p>Would agree there, expecting an aerial bombardment from the English through the game, have they got any decent chasers?</p><p></p><p>Might be interesting in the final quarter if the English defenders tire given the AB back line. Zac could turn on a rampage if given enough ball and space.</p><p></p><p>England need to cover across the field and use a drifting defense imho. Try to play it down NZ's end and feed off the mistakes.</p><p>[/b]</p></blockquote><p></p><p>We have the quickest man on the pitch in Monye, a big fella in Banahan and a nuts guy in Moody who should all make good chasers.</p><p></p><p>However, England's kicking game = kick it a long way straight to member of opposition. Not much use in chasing these sort of kicks. What's more, unless Hodgson takes on the mantle, Wilkinson will be doing all the kicking, because no one outside him has a boot at all. Which means all Thompson has to do is fly up in his face and he'll be put under pressure and produce even poorer kicks than usual.</p><p></p><p>This will then make Wilko stand very deep, which will make it predictable for the NZ defence when we're going to kick and when we're going to run. When we do run, they'll all be sitting in midfield waiting to gobble up whichever direct runner (there's about 6 in the team) has got the ball.</p><p></p><p>At this stage England will either 1) Recover the ball, try crash-ball a few more times and then get bored of slow ball and kick it down Sivivatu/ Guilford/ Muliaina's throat; 2) Give away a penalty or 3) Get turned over by McCaw.</p><p></p><p>New Zealand will then either have the ball or have a kick at goal, and they will inevitably be good at both. Or they'll kick it back to us and either Monye/ Banahan will drop it or it's back to square 1.</p><p></p><p>Let's hope I'm wrong.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="gingergenius, post: 288569"] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jethro @ Nov 20 2009, 12:09 AM) [url='index.php?act=findpost&pid=422105']<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/url]</div> Would agree there, expecting an aerial bombardment from the English through the game, have they got any decent chasers? Might be interesting in the final quarter if the English defenders tire given the AB back line. Zac could turn on a rampage if given enough ball and space. England need to cover across the field and use a drifting defense imho. Try to play it down NZ's end and feed off the mistakes. [/b][/quote] We have the quickest man on the pitch in Monye, a big fella in Banahan and a nuts guy in Moody who should all make good chasers. However, England's kicking game = kick it a long way straight to member of opposition. Not much use in chasing these sort of kicks. What's more, unless Hodgson takes on the mantle, Wilkinson will be doing all the kicking, because no one outside him has a boot at all. Which means all Thompson has to do is fly up in his face and he'll be put under pressure and produce even poorer kicks than usual. This will then make Wilko stand very deep, which will make it predictable for the NZ defence when we're going to kick and when we're going to run. When we do run, they'll all be sitting in midfield waiting to gobble up whichever direct runner (there's about 6 in the team) has got the ball. At this stage England will either 1) Recover the ball, try crash-ball a few more times and then get bored of slow ball and kick it down Sivivatu/ Guilford/ Muliaina's throat; 2) Give away a penalty or 3) Get turned over by McCaw. New Zealand will then either have the ball or have a kick at goal, and they will inevitably be good at both. Or they'll kick it back to us and either Monye/ Banahan will drop it or it's back to square 1. Let's hope I'm wrong. [/QUOTE]
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