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The Autopsy thread: Which England team members are for the chopping block?
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<blockquote data-quote="Isengard" data-source="post: 755380" data-attributes="member: 72456"><p>With all due respect I completely disagree. I for one have argued that Lancaster is not the man for years. I never wanted him in the first place. As someone else on here rightly said he was a complacent pick. He was English and had the right 'feel' for the RFU stuffed shirts, not the pedigree and experience that was actually required. He is a decent and hard-working man who has given his all but while he has the ideas he simply cannot execute them because he is not confident to do so, not experienced and settled enough to back himself and have a good idea that it will work. When the squad was announced I told anyone who would listen that England would be knocked out in the group stages. It was almost inevitable with the combinations he took, especially in the centres. With Slade obviously good but hardly tried and unlikely to feature he was 100% reliant on JJ to provide something, anything in midfield. The nightmare combination of Barrit and Burgess was the result, one which largely forced him to go for Farrell because Ford's distribution would be wasted on two bullocking but totally uninventive centres. This in turn meant the wingers were unlikely to get free. Farrell was also needed to cover for inevitable Burgess positional errors. Then to cap it all he had nobody at all who could come on and change anything much. Ford did it against Australia but it was too late and Barrit hampered anything which went through the hands. Cipriani was (while flawed in many ways) the only genuinely maverick and eccentric player available who could do something different and maybe change a losing situation but he was left out.</p><p></p><p>See my earlier rants for what I think needs to be done. But somehow getting through the group would have papered over the cracks. In 2007 it did and in 2011 we got through the group but everyone knew the coaching regime was a busted flush. Lancaster has tried and failed and achieved nothing. I have never and will never support his position as international coach of England.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Isengard, post: 755380, member: 72456"] With all due respect I completely disagree. I for one have argued that Lancaster is not the man for years. I never wanted him in the first place. As someone else on here rightly said he was a complacent pick. He was English and had the right 'feel' for the RFU stuffed shirts, not the pedigree and experience that was actually required. He is a decent and hard-working man who has given his all but while he has the ideas he simply cannot execute them because he is not confident to do so, not experienced and settled enough to back himself and have a good idea that it will work. When the squad was announced I told anyone who would listen that England would be knocked out in the group stages. It was almost inevitable with the combinations he took, especially in the centres. With Slade obviously good but hardly tried and unlikely to feature he was 100% reliant on JJ to provide something, anything in midfield. The nightmare combination of Barrit and Burgess was the result, one which largely forced him to go for Farrell because Ford's distribution would be wasted on two bullocking but totally uninventive centres. This in turn meant the wingers were unlikely to get free. Farrell was also needed to cover for inevitable Burgess positional errors. Then to cap it all he had nobody at all who could come on and change anything much. Ford did it against Australia but it was too late and Barrit hampered anything which went through the hands. Cipriani was (while flawed in many ways) the only genuinely maverick and eccentric player available who could do something different and maybe change a losing situation but he was left out. See my earlier rants for what I think needs to be done. But somehow getting through the group would have papered over the cracks. In 2007 it did and in 2011 we got through the group but everyone knew the coaching regime was a busted flush. Lancaster has tried and failed and achieved nothing. I have never and will never support his position as international coach of England. [/QUOTE]
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