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<blockquote data-quote="smartcooky" data-source="post: 693099" data-attributes="member: 20605"><p>I have just watched Saturday's internationals. I saw blatant missed tackles, knock ons and dropped ball. I saw players with clear opportunities to score tries, which were inexplicably bombed. I saw players who seemed unable to execute the most straightforward of game plans. It appears to be the convention in Rugby that players can miss tackles and miss scoring chances, yet they are rarely held to account. There is a World Cup looming and millions of new potential fans will be watching, but not for long if the players are so bloody incompetent that they can't, through lack of skill and poor execution, do things as simple as tackling the ball carrier, holding onto the ball when its passed to them, and take glaring scoring opportunities when they are all but handed to them on a plate. Skills are going to have to get better than what we saw on Saturday.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smartcooky, post: 693099, member: 20605"] I have just watched Saturday's internationals. I saw blatant missed tackles, knock ons and dropped ball. I saw players with clear opportunities to score tries, which were inexplicably bombed. I saw players who seemed unable to execute the most straightforward of game plans. It appears to be the convention in Rugby that players can miss tackles and miss scoring chances, yet they are rarely held to account. There is a World Cup looming and millions of new potential fans will be watching, but not for long if the players are so bloody incompetent that they can't, through lack of skill and poor execution, do things as simple as tackling the ball carrier, holding onto the ball when its passed to them, and take glaring scoring opportunities when they are all but handed to them on a plate. Skills are going to have to get better than what we saw on Saturday. [/QUOTE]
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