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<blockquote data-quote="j&#039;nuh" data-source="post: 572899" data-attributes="member: 55446"><p>Think this is worth asking. Most of the squad is pretty obvious now:</p><p></p><p>1. Corbisiero</p><p>2. Youngs</p><p>3. Cole</p><p>4. Launchbury</p><p>5. Parling</p><p>6. ...</p><p>7. ...</p><p>8. Morgan</p><p>9. Youngs/Care</p><p>10. Burns</p><p>11. May</p><p>12. Twelvetrees/Barritt</p><p>13. Tuilagi</p><p>14. Wade</p><p>15. Brown/Foden</p><p></p><p>16. Webber/Hartley</p><p>17. Vunipola</p><p>18. Wilson</p><p>19. Lawes/Attwood/(Croft!?)</p><p>20. ...</p><p>21. Care/Youngs</p><p>22. ...</p><p>23. ...</p><p></p><p>Backrow:</p><p> </p><p>You have four contenders for 6 and 7: Robshaw, Wood, Croft, Kvesic. And each of them have claims. Kvesic is the most inexperienced and it may count against him, but has the greatest breakdown presence. Robshaw takes on more tight work than any of them and is the captain and I think he's our best 6 if he plays like one. Wood appears to be a jack-of-all-trades character. Croft offers something unusual for a backrow and may help us play an expansive game with his presence in wider channels.</p><p></p><p>There is a way to accommodate all four:</p><p>6. Robshaw 7. Kvesic 19. Croft 20. Wood</p><p></p><p>The idea is to keep Launchbury and Parling on the field for full 80s (they are athletic enough) and to vary the backrow as needed with the replacements. If Launchbury/Parling gets injured, Croft replaces them and Wood replaces Morgan. The idea is that Croft scrums in the second row, but is allowed to play normally, while Wood takes on the work of the injured lock. If Lawes gets to his best again, then he can replace Launchbury/Parling.</p><p></p><p>However, I think I just prefer leaving Wood out:</p><p>6. Robshaw 7. Kvesic 19. Lawes/Attwood 20. Croft</p><p></p><p>Wood is a great player, and is the clear injury replacement for any of the other backrowers, but I don't think see his specialist role in the side. He seems to do most things second-best. He's appears to be second best of the four at the breakdown (Kvesic), lineout and "backline attack" (Croft), tackling and work rate (Robshaw). I think he's a little further down than second at carrying, both in loose and tight, and being a linkman (Robshaw and Kvesic). I'm not sure who is the best at hitting rucks.</p><p></p><p>22/23:</p><p></p><p>You could feasibly leave out fly-half cover and use Twelvetrees as back-up, but it's probably too risky unless Twelvetrees puts in some good performances there for club. I'd probably have fly-half cover in Flood, not only because I think he's better than Farrell, but also because when winning, you don't want to force changes except to freshen the team with like-for-likes, and when losing, Farrell isn't the right player to bring on to chase a game. As for 23, there are so many options, I don't know where to start. I wouldn't have Barritt: same argument as the one I gave for not having Farrell on the bench. Joseph and Tait seem the most obvious. If May were to gain more experience at 13, then Yarde or Benjamin would be my other options.</p><p></p><p>22. Flood 23. Joseph(/Tait/Benjamin/Yarde)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="j'nuh, post: 572899, member: 55446"] Think this is worth asking. Most of the squad is pretty obvious now: 1. Corbisiero 2. Youngs 3. Cole 4. Launchbury 5. Parling 6. ... 7. ... 8. Morgan 9. Youngs/Care 10. Burns 11. May 12. Twelvetrees/Barritt 13. Tuilagi 14. Wade 15. Brown/Foden 16. Webber/Hartley 17. Vunipola 18. Wilson 19. Lawes/Attwood/(Croft!?) 20. ... 21. Care/Youngs 22. ... 23. ... Backrow: You have four contenders for 6 and 7: Robshaw, Wood, Croft, Kvesic. And each of them have claims. Kvesic is the most inexperienced and it may count against him, but has the greatest breakdown presence. Robshaw takes on more tight work than any of them and is the captain and I think he's our best 6 if he plays like one. Wood appears to be a jack-of-all-trades character. Croft offers something unusual for a backrow and may help us play an expansive game with his presence in wider channels. There is a way to accommodate all four: 6. Robshaw 7. Kvesic 19. Croft 20. Wood The idea is to keep Launchbury and Parling on the field for full 80s (they are athletic enough) and to vary the backrow as needed with the replacements. If Launchbury/Parling gets injured, Croft replaces them and Wood replaces Morgan. The idea is that Croft scrums in the second row, but is allowed to play normally, while Wood takes on the work of the injured lock. If Lawes gets to his best again, then he can replace Launchbury/Parling. However, I think I just prefer leaving Wood out: 6. Robshaw 7. Kvesic 19. Lawes/Attwood 20. Croft Wood is a great player, and is the clear injury replacement for any of the other backrowers, but I don't think see his specialist role in the side. He seems to do most things second-best. He's appears to be second best of the four at the breakdown (Kvesic), lineout and "backline attack" (Croft), tackling and work rate (Robshaw). I think he's a little further down than second at carrying, both in loose and tight, and being a linkman (Robshaw and Kvesic). I'm not sure who is the best at hitting rucks. 22/23: You could feasibly leave out fly-half cover and use Twelvetrees as back-up, but it's probably too risky unless Twelvetrees puts in some good performances there for club. I'd probably have fly-half cover in Flood, not only because I think he's better than Farrell, but also because when winning, you don't want to force changes except to freshen the team with like-for-likes, and when losing, Farrell isn't the right player to bring on to chase a game. As for 23, there are so many options, I don't know where to start. I wouldn't have Barritt: same argument as the one I gave for not having Farrell on the bench. Joseph and Tait seem the most obvious. If May were to gain more experience at 13, then Yarde or Benjamin would be my other options. 22. Flood 23. Joseph(/Tait/Benjamin/Yarde) [/QUOTE]
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