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[RWC19 Warm-Up] - England vs. Italy
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<blockquote data-quote="Vieux Talonneur" data-source="post: 956083" data-attributes="member: 73144"><p>But they don't always get it right and even the best science in the world can't guarantee - Mako was off the field after 15 mins with a problem on the same injury. Part of the reason one or two of us are kicking off about Binny is that he's proven to be injury prone and this really is a meaningless match in the bigger picture. Risk / reward trade off is heavily skewed.</p><p></p><p>I accept everyone needs the odd hit out. But this is pre RWC, not pre season. That's different. If you lose a player for 4 or 5 club matches at the start of a normal season there are plenty more games for them to play and influence outcomes. Lose one of our top players now for that time period and they could miss the whole RWC which would be personally terrible for them and could damage team chances.</p><p></p><p>It may not. But it might. It just takes an injury to one of the others and suddenly he's facing a match defining defensive line out in a SF with 5 minutes to go and 2 points in it. Hitting your man 10 / 10 in training is utterly irrelevant - that's all about temperament and experience. Possibly drama queening but it could happen and surely the whole point of a squad is that contingencies have been properly covered. You really don't want to be taking players praying they're never called on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vieux Talonneur, post: 956083, member: 73144"] But they don't always get it right and even the best science in the world can't guarantee - Mako was off the field after 15 mins with a problem on the same injury. Part of the reason one or two of us are kicking off about Binny is that he's proven to be injury prone and this really is a meaningless match in the bigger picture. Risk / reward trade off is heavily skewed. I accept everyone needs the odd hit out. But this is pre RWC, not pre season. That's different. If you lose a player for 4 or 5 club matches at the start of a normal season there are plenty more games for them to play and influence outcomes. Lose one of our top players now for that time period and they could miss the whole RWC which would be personally terrible for them and could damage team chances. It may not. But it might. It just takes an injury to one of the others and suddenly he's facing a match defining defensive line out in a SF with 5 minutes to go and 2 points in it. Hitting your man 10 / 10 in training is utterly irrelevant - that's all about temperament and experience. Possibly drama queening but it could happen and surely the whole point of a squad is that contingencies have been properly covered. You really don't want to be taking players praying they're never called on. [/QUOTE]
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