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[November Tests 2016 EOYT] England vs. Argentina (26/11/2016)
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<blockquote data-quote="The Jones Boy" data-source="post: 825917" data-attributes="member: 70721"><p>Maybe, or perhaps people in the northern hemisphere forget that the AI don't mean that much to the southern hemisphere teams.</p><p>There is no trophy at stake. No silverware to be won and the teams that come up are either suffering from long season fatigue or they have a variety of new 'greenhorn' players to blood for the development of the squad, or both.</p><p></p><p>Thats why so few northern hemisphere teams do well in the southern hemisphere when they tour after their long club championship series with the 6 nations in the middle of it.</p><p>It's hard to know where England are at the moment, they had a great tour of Australia 4-5 months ago, record breaking stuff following on from a strong showing in the 6 Nations, but how much of that has been because of the sheer embarrassment their quality players were feeling after they couldn't beat Wales at Twickenham and get out of their own pool at the RWC.?</p><p>Once that embarrassment wears off as a motivating factor will England lack the drive to reach their true potential or ultimate goal.?? ;-)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Jones Boy, post: 825917, member: 70721"] Maybe, or perhaps people in the northern hemisphere forget that the AI don't mean that much to the southern hemisphere teams. There is no trophy at stake. No silverware to be won and the teams that come up are either suffering from long season fatigue or they have a variety of new 'greenhorn' players to blood for the development of the squad, or both. Thats why so few northern hemisphere teams do well in the southern hemisphere when they tour after their long club championship series with the 6 nations in the middle of it. It's hard to know where England are at the moment, they had a great tour of Australia 4-5 months ago, record breaking stuff following on from a strong showing in the 6 Nations, but how much of that has been because of the sheer embarrassment their quality players were feeling after they couldn't beat Wales at Twickenham and get out of their own pool at the RWC.? Once that embarrassment wears off as a motivating factor will England lack the drive to reach their true potential or ultimate goal.?? ;-) [/QUOTE]
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