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[RWC2019][Pool C] Round 2 - England vs. USA (26/09/2019)
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<blockquote data-quote="RedruthRFC" data-source="post: 961300" data-attributes="member: 58362"><p>Hopefully I'm not allowing myself to be blinded by Cornish loyalty, but I don't get what you're not getting! I can sympathise with the view that he doesn't have the pace for an international winger (I have said here in the past that I think he'd have a higher ceiling at 13 or 15), but that doesn't appear to be your gripe.</p><p></p><p>I've already said that my take on the chance that Jones took on Nowell is because of the esteem Jones holds him in. Maybe I should have expanded on this. He has a skill set that no other winger available has - when he's not playing, whoever plays in his place does so with a different remit. If Jones didn't see value in this, he would either pick someone else or use Nowell in a traditional role.</p><p></p><p>Who are these many players who deserve a spot. Thorley appears to be next in line based on the wider training squad, if you accept that we need the number of wingers that we took, would you really advocate putting two uncapped wingers into a World Cup squad? Failing that, who is above Thorley in your pecking order?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RedruthRFC, post: 961300, member: 58362"] Hopefully I'm not allowing myself to be blinded by Cornish loyalty, but I don't get what you're not getting! I can sympathise with the view that he doesn't have the pace for an international winger (I have said here in the past that I think he'd have a higher ceiling at 13 or 15), but that doesn't appear to be your gripe. I've already said that my take on the chance that Jones took on Nowell is because of the esteem Jones holds him in. Maybe I should have expanded on this. He has a skill set that no other winger available has - when he's not playing, whoever plays in his place does so with a different remit. If Jones didn't see value in this, he would either pick someone else or use Nowell in a traditional role. Who are these many players who deserve a spot. Thorley appears to be next in line based on the wider training squad, if you accept that we need the number of wingers that we took, would you really advocate putting two uncapped wingers into a World Cup squad? Failing that, who is above Thorley in your pecking order? [/QUOTE]
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