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June International Test: Australia vs. England [2nd Test] (18/06/2016)
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<blockquote data-quote="Every Time Ref" data-source="post: 803544" data-attributes="member: 71826"><p>I think partly they're getting better ball from the forwards. Every playmaker looks better behind a good pack.</p><p></p><p>Other than that I think Farrell is currently playing very well and Ford is (despite conventional wisdom) playing as well as ever - for England at least. I do think their styles mesh quite well, GF likes to play close to the line and has a really good short passing game. OH plays deeper and hasa good flat, wide pass to get the ball to the wide channel quickly, I guess like any partnership they're improving with more games together. What's interesting for me is that you'd expect a fly-half at 12 to kick from hand a lot, but actually OH doesn't - I hardly remembering him kicking at the weekend and the ESPN stats* back me up, apparently he only kicked twice, less that Youngs, Ford and Brown. He isn't actually seen by EJ, I don't think, as a major kicking from hand option.</p><p></p><p>I've been very anti-Farrell-at-12 in the past, but I'm definitely starting to cautiously come on board ... for now.</p><p></p><p>*Side note, I haven't tried to look at match stats on ESPN for a while, this new website is absolutely terrible. Completely unintuitive and I can't find anything I look for. I wanted to compare Ford/Farrell's kicking out of hand stats for the 6N, but couldn't even find match stats for 6N 2016 games.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Every Time Ref, post: 803544, member: 71826"] I think partly they're getting better ball from the forwards. Every playmaker looks better behind a good pack. Other than that I think Farrell is currently playing very well and Ford is (despite conventional wisdom) playing as well as ever - for England at least. I do think their styles mesh quite well, GF likes to play close to the line and has a really good short passing game. OH plays deeper and hasa good flat, wide pass to get the ball to the wide channel quickly, I guess like any partnership they're improving with more games together. What's interesting for me is that you'd expect a fly-half at 12 to kick from hand a lot, but actually OH doesn't - I hardly remembering him kicking at the weekend and the ESPN stats* back me up, apparently he only kicked twice, less that Youngs, Ford and Brown. He isn't actually seen by EJ, I don't think, as a major kicking from hand option. I've been very anti-Farrell-at-12 in the past, but I'm definitely starting to cautiously come on board ... for now. *Side note, I haven't tried to look at match stats on ESPN for a while, this new website is absolutely terrible. Completely unintuitive and I can't find anything I look for. I wanted to compare Ford/Farrell's kicking out of hand stats for the 6N, but couldn't even find match stats for 6N 2016 games. [/QUOTE]
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