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England Vs South Africa
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<blockquote data-quote="Substitute" data-source="post: 143886"><p>Thank God Stevens is there, who would surely hve performed better than both Vickery and Sheridan. Whats worrying is we now have a prop that is more mobile than most our back-row.</p><p></p><p>Anyway if England are to win I believe they will have to do a couple of things:</p><p>1) Counter attack well. With Noon and Catty we aren't going to score trys in open play really. Thus our wingers and fullback are going to need to live off scraps and poach some points, much like Argentina against France. I think this is why Robinson is at fullback.</p><p>2) Keep the ball close to the forwards. Yes our forwards are worse than their forwards but our backs are a country mile worse. Plus our forwards are big enough to hopefully stick it up their jumper successfuly. Our defenders will have a part to play. Some kind of rush defence must happen stopping the ball travelling past 13, ideally 12. As a final meaure I'd go out on a limb and tell Lewsey to man-mark Habana and stay up in his face. Then get one of the back rows to cover Habana's vacated space.</p><p></p><p>This game isn't beyond England but another pessimistic squad choice won't have helped. Oh well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Substitute, post: 143886"] Thank God Stevens is there, who would surely hve performed better than both Vickery and Sheridan. Whats worrying is we now have a prop that is more mobile than most our back-row. Anyway if England are to win I believe they will have to do a couple of things: 1) Counter attack well. With Noon and Catty we aren't going to score trys in open play really. Thus our wingers and fullback are going to need to live off scraps and poach some points, much like Argentina against France. I think this is why Robinson is at fullback. 2) Keep the ball close to the forwards. Yes our forwards are worse than their forwards but our backs are a country mile worse. Plus our forwards are big enough to hopefully stick it up their jumper successfuly. Our defenders will have a part to play. Some kind of rush defence must happen stopping the ball travelling past 13, ideally 12. As a final meaure I'd go out on a limb and tell Lewsey to man-mark Habana and stay up in his face. Then get one of the back rows to cover Habana's vacated space. This game isn't beyond England but another pessimistic squad choice won't have helped. Oh well. [/QUOTE]
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