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<blockquote data-quote="Umaga&#039;s Witness" data-source="post: 947960" data-attributes="member: 65365"><p>The thing I noticed at the time, as someone not biased about which players should be selected, is that he picked the form players as much as possible, apart from Wyn Jones who was awful in every game he played (granted he looked a bit better against a 7 man forward pack). The amount of nonsense people here were talking regarding selections, completely contradicting what I was seeing in front of my eyes, was phenomenal. Almost everyone was saying Davies shouldn't be selected, for instance, but he was easily the best lions player of the tour. Some of those same people are starting to recognise him as a good player now, but certainly not then. Point being you are saying he should have known to play sexton with Farrell at 12 from the start, but the cherry picking you are accusing me of, which I have no incentive to do by the way, can be thrown right back at you, because there were probably other selection decisions he made that proved better than the ones you were (probably) suggesting at the time, eg I think you were one that didn't want Davies?</p><p></p><p>Probably also worth mentioning that lots of people thought Farrell at 12 was obvious and a lot of the same people now are advocating against that, because some games were lost with him at 12. So "obvious at the time" probably isn't the best indicator as people tend to change their minds on what's obvious based on results of the entire team rather than how the individual player performs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umaga's Witness, post: 947960, member: 65365"] The thing I noticed at the time, as someone not biased about which players should be selected, is that he picked the form players as much as possible, apart from Wyn Jones who was awful in every game he played (granted he looked a bit better against a 7 man forward pack). The amount of nonsense people here were talking regarding selections, completely contradicting what I was seeing in front of my eyes, was phenomenal. Almost everyone was saying Davies shouldn’t be selected, for instance, but he was easily the best lions player of the tour. Some of those same people are starting to recognise him as a good player now, but certainly not then. Point being you are saying he should have known to play sexton with Farrell at 12 from the start, but the cherry picking you are accusing me of, which I have no incentive to do by the way, can be thrown right back at you, because there were probably other selection decisions he made that proved better than the ones you were (probably) suggesting at the time, eg I think you were one that didn’t want Davies? Probably also worth mentioning that lots of people thought Farrell at 12 was obvious and a lot of the same people now are advocating against that, because some games were lost with him at 12. So “obvious at the time” probably isn’t the best indicator as people tend to change their minds on what’s obvious based on results of the entire team rather than how the individual player performs. [/QUOTE]
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