major concern is if Jones's inexperienced back row having not picked his best team for the start and they don't perform well enough to hold the Welsh in the first thirty minutes and he has to substitute a few early instead of like last week keeping them till the end if he gets a few injuries he could well end up with a short team on the field at the end, going to be one hell of a match.
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Juliogeordio
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Defo a cracker Alan. Not sure we deserved it... Again. I think Cuthbert made a MASSIVE mistake at the end and allowed Daley far too much room on the outside. Cuthbert is a winger and probably though he had pace enough to allow Daley that room... Problem is, Cuthbert isn't that quick for a wing and Daley is pretty darn quick! Finding a way to win again but as you say, I'm not convinced over that back row set up. Roll on the next game!
initially it was Davies poor kick that let England in for the last gasp winner buy Daley inst Cuthbert only one winner. Don' know what was going on in the back row Itoje picked at blindside but Lawes played there.
Juliogeordio
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Yeah seemed a bit odd. Both pretty mobile and athletic guys so I guess Jones views them as interchangeable.
One or two bad decision cost you games at that level. Thoroughly entertaining stuff though! Much better than the football!
Jones has said they haven't got any left they are all used
what I couldn't understand was, Lawes tackled and tackled and got up and tackled some more, which Jones noticed and commented on and said that he had ice packs allover, yet when the stats came out for most tackles he wasn't mentioned, to me he was way ahead in the tackles made count
Juliogeordio
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I'm not sure how they count Alan. Maybe the first guy making contact gets credited the tackle. If lawes was second man in to 50 tackles he wouldn't get a single one to his name despite putting in a hell of a shift. Not sure to be honest.
at least the one that matters Eddie Jones saw what was happening
we've played two good teams that should of beaten us and we won, we should beat Italy very convincingly but still have Scotland and Ireland to come two teams that have showed great improvement and capable of beating anyone, going to be tight
the worry is we could play well and get beat, Italy should be a doddle
