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<blockquote data-quote="Peat" data-source="post: 477449" data-attributes="member: 42330"><p>smartcooky - Hold your horses there. Wilkinson was our anointed 10, but always got injured. Flood is now our anointed 10, but he too is injured. The likes of Richards and Noon probably filled in there as subs due to injury problems during a game which I think has very little to do with the issue and shouldn't be counted. Using them to accuse England of inconsistency of selection would be like me turning around and saying the fact NZ used 4 fly-halves in the WC shows that they're inconsistent in selection as well. Slightly pedantically, neither Grayson or Walder have played for England in the last 7 years. So in fact that's 8 I'll accept, which doesn't compare too badly to the 6 used by the All-Blacks in the same period to my knowledge.</p><p></p><p>There has been a fair bit of inconsistency in selection, but a lot of it has been dictated by injuries (3 head coaches in the period doesn't help either) and it is nowhere near as bad as you're suggesting.</p><p></p><p>Also Ford kicked away far too much ball in that final.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Peat, post: 477449, member: 42330"] smartcooky - Hold your horses there. Wilkinson was our anointed 10, but always got injured. Flood is now our anointed 10, but he too is injured. The likes of Richards and Noon probably filled in there as subs due to injury problems during a game which I think has very little to do with the issue and shouldn't be counted. Using them to accuse England of inconsistency of selection would be like me turning around and saying the fact NZ used 4 fly-halves in the WC shows that they're inconsistent in selection as well. Slightly pedantically, neither Grayson or Walder have played for England in the last 7 years. So in fact that's 8 I'll accept, which doesn't compare too badly to the 6 used by the All-Blacks in the same period to my knowledge. There has been a fair bit of inconsistency in selection, but a lot of it has been dictated by injuries (3 head coaches in the period doesn't help either) and it is nowhere near as bad as you're suggesting. Also Ford kicked away far too much ball in that final. [/QUOTE]
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