Six Nations 2017
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Little surprised not to see Teo at 12 & Daley at 13. Not really sold on what the point of that is, unless Eddie feels he has no depth at 13 & needs Teo covering there & 12 too. Teo at 13 has the look of a player who will stop the attack not spark it and I'm not sure he has the gas to take the outside line well & not just run sideways.
Would have liked to see Watson at 15 as well.
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@gollum Agree all round, I'm not sold on Teo at 13 either but I can see that Eddie does not want to split up the Ford/Farrell axis but also wants to get Teo on the park. Eddie has shown he is not scared of admitting a blunder and yanking someone off the park early and he has cover with Slade and Nowell.
Watson would seem to be the longer term option at 15 but I think lack of game time has counted against him.
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Might be an element that Farrel is pivotall & Ford is a confidence player so dropping Farrell means Fords awful goal kicking is exposed & dropping Ford means he gets all mopey & his form drops.
I'd guess after 55 minutes Slade will be in the centres anyway with Ford subbed. I'd almost forgotten Slade was a class unit.
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@gollum Yes Farrell is currently un-droppable, Ford though has a degree more vision and his decision making (when on song) is superior, but let him miss a few kicks at goal and invariably his all round game suffers. Oddly enough that wasn't the case on the pre-summer tour game against Wales where he missed 6/7 but we scored five tries.
You may be right in that we could eventually see a Farrell, Teo, Slade combo at 10/12/13 and that has a good look to it. Slade is a class unit but not currently in the best of form. Lack of game time cannot have helped though.
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@Kruse said in Six Nations 2017:
Yep, 9-13... and I'd rather be watching SuperRugby.
The speed in the Super Rugby games is quite obvious when you watch these games on the same day. However I'd love to see a Super game with the crowd noise going on here. It's pretty impressive.
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@Crucial said in Six Nations 2017:
@Crucial said in Six Nations 2017:
Not sure if Scotland have fucked that up? Going to the TMO
Try!
Should have been a PT anyway for the high shot
Yeah, not even a warning for that high shot. Odd.
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Great result for Scotland. The NH sides often have their 10s deeper and narrower than the nz super rugby sides which I find annoying but they created some nice tries.
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@Crucial said in Six Nations 2017:
@Frye said in Six Nations 2017:
Visser beats North clean twice in the same passage and scores to give Scotland a 13 point lead.
Pretty poor.
North was pants. Is he really a Lions tour contender?
He's not properly fit and yet is being flogged by Wales.
