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Stadio Communale di Monigo (22/01/2012, 14:00)
Live on Sky Italia/Sky Sports
So that's Cole and Stevens both playing like crap.
Going to be a fun Six Nations :lol:
Farrell's defence is so overrated by the pundits, he's by no means a bad tackler but they try and make him out as if he's Scott Gibbs which he isn't, missed a tackle for the Barbieri try, also in attack does he ever attack the gainline, ever? I watched both the Saracens matches these two H Cup rounds, and whilst Barritt is a brick in defence and can offload, Farrell does nothing in attack, England should be wary of picking him at 13 for the 6 Nations unless they want to play a Saracens game plan
Mouritz Botha was very good, a menace at rucks, scored a try and also was the main reason for the second from the chargedown
what's happened to Stevens? after being impressive before being called up to the World Cup squad where he came in the form prop, but at the World Cup he conceded a lot of penalties against Argentina, Georgia and France, and since coming back for Saracens he's been largely on the bench and was destroyed by the Treviso scrum, taking Nieto off was a poor decision from the Saracens management
Farrell's defence is so overrated by the pundits, he's by no means a bad tackler but they try and make him out as if he's Scott Gibbs which he isn't, missed a tackle for the Barbieri try, also in attack does he ever attack the gainline, ever? I watched both the Saracens matches these two H Cup rounds, and whilst Barritt is a brick in defence and can offload, Farrell does nothing in attack, England should be wary of picking him at 13 for the 6 Nations unless they want to play a Saracens game plan
Mouritz Botha was very good, a menace at rucks, scored a try and also was the main reason for the second from the chargedown
what's happened to Stevens? after being impressive before being called up to the World Cup squad where he came in the form prop, but at the World Cup he conceded a lot of penalties against Argentina, Georgia and France, and since coming back for Saracens he's been largely on the bench and was destroyed by the Treviso scrum, taking Nieto off was a poor decision from the Saracens management
Yes, as I said he was mostly solid in defence. Remember he's pretty much a teenager still and is a fly half by nature, and by rule of thumb, fly halves tend to miss a few tackles now and again. So, I will stick to my words and say that he is generally still a good defender.
As I said, he adds little to attack other than being 'cement', between Hodgeson and Barritt, and Barritt and the outside backs. In the England squad, he would be fine especially with outside backs like Sharples, Foden, Brown and Ashton.
England probably will go for the Sarries game plan to start with, and I'm hoping it will be successful.