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<blockquote data-quote="Eleutherarch" data-source="post: 1093491" data-attributes="member: 85519"><p>From what I've seen of Cokanasiga, it is a problem of versatility. I just don't think the sole credentials of "jeez he's a big unit" cuts it anymore. There are always those players that can read things in real time, fluidly and instinctively reacting in a perfect manner. Those are the world class players. But a base positional awareness and anticipatory action is essential at test match level. He's just not proactive.</p><p></p><p>You guys have gotta give the Smith-Farrell axis a chance to bed in btw. It was far from a bad performance (see Elton Jantjies for a case study on nightmares at 10). There were some generally interesting passages of play with some decent ideas. For all the complaints I've read about chopping and changing, I'm surprised there are those that won't give this pairing a chance to see where it goes. On field relationships take time to build. I'm not saying that they'll ever reach Matfield/Bakkies or Smith/Nonu levels of cohesion but give them a chance. Those guys had ages to build that sort of telepathy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Eleutherarch, post: 1093491, member: 85519"] From what I've seen of Cokanasiga, it is a problem of versatility. I just don't think the sole credentials of "jeez he's a big unit" cuts it anymore. There are always those players that can read things in real time, fluidly and instinctively reacting in a perfect manner. Those are the world class players. But a base positional awareness and anticipatory action is essential at test match level. He's just not proactive. You guys have gotta give the Smith-Farrell axis a chance to bed in btw. It was far from a bad performance (see Elton Jantjies for a case study on nightmares at 10). There were some generally interesting passages of play with some decent ideas. For all the complaints I've read about chopping and changing, I'm surprised there are those that won't give this pairing a chance to see where it goes. On field relationships take time to build. I'm not saying that they'll ever reach Matfield/Bakkies or Smith/Nonu levels of cohesion but give them a chance. Those guys had ages to build that sort of telepathy. [/QUOTE]
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