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June International Test: Australia vs. England [3rd Test] (25/06/2016)
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<blockquote data-quote="Peat" data-source="post: 805696" data-attributes="member: 42330"><p>Only just getting around to seeing the game. End of first half, great game to watch. Historic moment. Fantastic moment.</p><p></p><p>However - as it is my nature to look at the opponent and what they could have done more to hurt us - its pretty obvious that England are doing a lot more holding players into rucks. Australia? Close to none. The English line becomes whole again. The only example of Australia doing it that I spotted after seeing this pattern was a guy going right over the top to chop down Itoje - completely illegal, nowhere near the ruck - shortly before McMahon's burst that leads to that last penalty of the half. </p><p></p><p>Honestly? I still think Australia are a team with a higher ceiling than England at the moment. But they are dumb as rocks. This 40 minutes however, we look a lot classier. Are we officially the second best team in the world? We should be.</p><p></p><p>What's impressive is we're doing it by getting a fairly cobbled together team to play really close to their ceiling consistently. The optimist in me says that when they can start feeding in better players and better system fits, the ceiling goes up a lot, and we will be more dangerous. </p><p></p><p>The pessimist says players can't stay that long at their peak and sooner or later what goes up must come down.</p><p></p><p>Also - Ben Youngs - he's one hell of a f' up machine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Peat, post: 805696, member: 42330"] Only just getting around to seeing the game. End of first half, great game to watch. Historic moment. Fantastic moment. However - as it is my nature to look at the opponent and what they could have done more to hurt us - its pretty obvious that England are doing a lot more holding players into rucks. Australia? Close to none. The English line becomes whole again. The only example of Australia doing it that I spotted after seeing this pattern was a guy going right over the top to chop down Itoje - completely illegal, nowhere near the ruck - shortly before McMahon's burst that leads to that last penalty of the half. Honestly? I still think Australia are a team with a higher ceiling than England at the moment. But they are dumb as rocks. This 40 minutes however, we look a lot classier. Are we officially the second best team in the world? We should be. What's impressive is we're doing it by getting a fairly cobbled together team to play really close to their ceiling consistently. The optimist in me says that when they can start feeding in better players and better system fits, the ceiling goes up a lot, and we will be more dangerous. The pessimist says players can't stay that long at their peak and sooner or later what goes up must come down. Also - Ben Youngs - he's one hell of a f' up machine. [/QUOTE]
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