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What's up with England's ball-carrying forwards?
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<blockquote data-quote="goodNumber10" data-source="post: 694803" data-attributes="member: 71068"><p>it's two reasons mainly:</p><p></p><p>slow ball needs to be made fast, you don't do that by slinging it out the back of the ruck to a man 10 feet away - they need to pick and go more to tie in the fringe defence and then let the guys run off that/let 9 pop to guys coming onto the gainline.</p><p></p><p>Second it's because the defence is getting off the line quick, due to the slow ball, and thus they are sitting deeper to give themselves more time and space.</p><p></p><p>It really revolves around two things, not having a decent midfield target (hence Eastmond getting dropped), and our forwards not coming around the corner of that target. The only team that doesn't play around the corner is New Zealand who play straight, we're not NZ so we should go back to our traditional strengths which is round the corner smash the tackle line.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="goodNumber10, post: 694803, member: 71068"] it's two reasons mainly: slow ball needs to be made fast, you don't do that by slinging it out the back of the ruck to a man 10 feet away - they need to pick and go more to tie in the fringe defence and then let the guys run off that/let 9 pop to guys coming onto the gainline. Second it's because the defence is getting off the line quick, due to the slow ball, and thus they are sitting deeper to give themselves more time and space. It really revolves around two things, not having a decent midfield target (hence Eastmond getting dropped), and our forwards not coming around the corner of that target. The only team that doesn't play around the corner is New Zealand who play straight, we're not NZ so we should go back to our traditional strengths which is round the corner smash the tackle line. [/QUOTE]
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