The pass at @1:49 to Ben Kay was sublime and should be in every Wilkinson's highlight. What a passer of a ball. Flat, hard and sharp. His pass is so underrated.
As a Welshman I have a national duty to not cheer on the English however Jonny Wilkinson is an absolute rugby genius. His vision is unbelievable. My top three rugby brains are Gareth Edwards, Jonny Wilkinson and Dan Carter.
thanks for that comment about wilkinson,& your also totally right about GARETH EDWARDS,he was ahead of his time.i also have the same duty of not cheering the welsh as iam english but respect when respect is due,goodluck!
Englishman here too, I'm a huge fan of barry 'the king' john myself - think him, wilkinson, and carter are up there for fly halves. With gareth edwards topping my list of best players to grace the game :)
I remember Wilkinson saying that, when Jason Robinson arrived in the team, he was mesmerised at the kinds of steps and angles Robinson could run and made him rethink his game. I believe this game exemplifies the notes he took from Robinson and putting them into practice.
Wilkinson was good in this game, no doubt about it. But it was the support runners too. Everyone was on the same page. Look where Healy positioned himself, or Kay, or Greenwood. Their lines were excellent. That's when thrashing happens. When the support work is there.
SJW motorsport, you’re a bit of a donut mate. Maybe, just maybe we could praise both Wilkinson AND the support runners?! You’ve obviously never played rugby if you think anybody can run those support lines.
This can’t be right, I’ve had dozens of Aussies tell me that Johnny only ever knew how to kick!!! Praise should go to Austin Healy too, he was a very smart player. Also Neil Back too, great link man and support player. I roll my eyes when people (mostly Welsh and Australian) patronisingly ‘tell’ me that this England team was only ever a big pack plus a kicker. The support play was awesome.
This was when he'd spent hours watching tape of Jason Robinson and drilled himself to be able to do his best to replicate some of his footwork. One of the hardest workers ever to wear an England jersey.
If I remember correctly he (Jonny Wilkinson) had spent some time with Jason Robinson in the lead up to this game - as Jonny wanted to learn the art of the Robinson sidestep, acceleration and swerve. Seems like it was time well spent. It was obvious Sir Clive wanted to run Ireland off their feet. The chip over the first line of defence was superb I always wished Jonny had done that instead of some of the drop goals he scored.
I often thought with Wilkonson his shoulder angle was the great deceiver for players trying to read where he was going. Always had great shoulder movement
Ahhh the young Wilkinson; the running, side-stepping, try creating talent, before we made him a boring kicking/tackling machine to suit our style. Don’t get me wrong we won a WC but Dawson started as a sniping 9 but went robotic in his methods and if James Simpson-Daniel was welsh he would be ranked alongside Shane Williams, but that’s too much flair for our style I guess!! 🙄same as not giving Cipriani more chance, better than all other 10s since Wilkinson! And let’s hope we don’t make You game too robotic as well! It’s already starting to happen!
John Pearce yes I did, but when you run in 200 points against Georgia and Uruguay it’s not too difficult is it?! 😆 didn’t we scored one try in the semis and final combined? Even the ONE try against SA was a charge down. Ive watched every minute of England rugby games for the last 25ish years so don’t worry about what I have seen.
John Pearce I never said it wasn’t valid!! Just commented on the fact that Wilkinson was turned from great running 10 (who could also smash in the tackles and kick all his kicks) into a robot. Same with Dawson (sniping time just passing time JW). I just hate that James Simpson Daniel could do things that only maybe Robinson could do but it wasn’t robotic enough. Had he been Welsh, he’d have been referred to like Shane Williams! Your comments, and this i conversation, have digressed massively.
@@brentmeistergeneral6074/videos I agree with you to an extent, but the World Cup knock-out conditions were TERRIBLE. This was a team that could stick it up their jumper and shred you to pieces when the opportunity came. 2002-03 is a fantastic example of this. This Six Nations team followed up with the incredible Autumn where they beat Australia and New Zealand before demolishing South Africa. Then, they followed up in their Summer tour by winning against the All Blacks by holding them off the line with a 6-man scrum. Simpson-Daniel was a massive missed opportunity, but he was also incredibly injury prone. Wilkinson was much the same, but he was so pivotal to Newcastle that they played him anyway. The pragmatic Johnny that returned to England in 2007 was a necessity by that point.
England during 2002 played some of the most creative attacking rugby, they played a brand of rugby that out 'all blacked' the all blacks, it's not a coincidence that this coincided with Brian Ashton working on their attacking game, if only the Sir Clive, Andy Robinson and Brian Ashton team could have had longer then the England team could of gone onto even greater things
Which biography do you speak of? He has several now, I think. Mike Catt's was a good read. Will Greenwood's too. Neil Jenkins' was awful boring. I never got to Gregor Townsend's, but I hear it is good too.
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The pass at @1:49 to Ben Kay was sublime and should be in every Wilkinson's highlight. What a passer of a ball. Flat, hard and sharp. His pass is so underrated.
As a Welshman I have a national duty to not cheer on the English however Jonny Wilkinson is an absolute rugby genius. His vision is unbelievable. My top three rugby brains are Gareth Edwards, Jonny Wilkinson and Dan Carter.
thanks for that comment about wilkinson,& your also totally right about GARETH EDWARDS,he was ahead of his time.i also have the same duty of not cheering the welsh as iam english but respect when respect is due,goodluck!
Englishman here too, I'm a huge fan of barry 'the king' john myself - think him, wilkinson, and carter are up there for fly halves. With gareth edwards topping my list of best players to grace the game :)
I remember Wilkinson saying that, when Jason Robinson arrived in the team, he was mesmerised at the kinds of steps and angles Robinson could run and made him rethink his game. I believe this game exemplifies the notes he took from Robinson and putting them into practice.
JONNY,how do you think we will do in the six nations ?
Wilkinson was good in this game, no doubt about it. But it was the support runners too. Everyone was on the same page. Look where Healy positioned himself, or Kay, or Greenwood. Their lines were excellent. That's when thrashing happens. When the support work is there.
muntu they only ran those lines because they knew jonny had the vision to pick them out
Obviously you’ve never played rugby
SJW motorsport, you’re a bit of a donut mate. Maybe, just maybe we could praise both Wilkinson AND the support runners?! You’ve obviously never played rugby if you think anybody can run those support lines.
What an absolutely incredible player and team. Cannot help but smile at the genius of this side and the way they ripped the Irish defence to shreds
This can’t be right, I’ve had dozens of Aussies tell me that Johnny only ever knew how to kick!!! Praise should go to Austin Healy too, he was a very smart player. Also Neil Back too, great link man and support player. I roll my eyes when people (mostly Welsh and Australian) patronisingly ‘tell’ me that this England team was only ever a big pack plus a kicker. The support play was awesome.
his most complete performance ever apart from maybe Australia in 2009. Outstanding.
6 years later the TH-cam algorithm decides its time for me to watch this and I am delighted.
This was when he'd spent hours watching tape of Jason Robinson and drilled himself to be able to do his best to replicate some of his footwork. One of the hardest workers ever to wear an England jersey.
If I remember correctly he (Jonny Wilkinson) had spent some time with Jason Robinson in the lead up to this game - as Jonny wanted to learn the art of the Robinson sidestep, acceleration and swerve. Seems like it was time well spent. It was obvious Sir Clive wanted to run Ireland off their feet. The chip over the first line of defence was superb I always wished Jonny had done that instead of some of the drop goals he scored.
Everyone talks about his kicking and epic defence, but great feet, handling and rugby brain too. The GOAT.
Absolute class
I often thought with Wilkonson his shoulder angle was the great deceiver for players trying to read where he was going. Always had great shoulder movement
Best player of all time
Makes you wonder why he didn't try and run it more often.
He didn't have the England players to follow him. Games like Oz 09 showed he had this talent but the players around him weren't always with him
Ahhh the young Wilkinson; the running, side-stepping, try creating talent, before we made him a boring kicking/tackling machine to suit our style. Don’t get me wrong we won a WC but Dawson started as a sniping 9 but went robotic in his methods and if James Simpson-Daniel was welsh he would be ranked alongside Shane Williams, but that’s too much flair for our style I guess!! 🙄same as not giving Cipriani more chance, better than all other 10s since Wilkinson! And let’s hope we don’t make You game too robotic as well! It’s already starting to happen!
John Pearce yes I did, but when you run in 200 points against Georgia and Uruguay it’s not too difficult is it?! 😆 didn’t we scored one try in the semis and final combined? Even the ONE try against SA was a charge down.
Ive watched every minute of England rugby games for the last 25ish years so don’t worry about what I have seen.
John Pearce did you know that England got 17 of those in one game against Uruguay and Paul Grayson played 10?!
John Pearce after with all you’ve said. My points still stand
John Pearce I never said it wasn’t valid!! Just commented on the fact that Wilkinson was turned from great running 10 (who could also smash in the tackles and kick all his kicks) into a robot. Same with Dawson (sniping time just passing time JW).
I just hate that James Simpson Daniel could do things that only maybe Robinson could do but it wasn’t robotic enough. Had he been Welsh, he’d have been referred to like Shane Williams!
Your comments, and this i conversation, have digressed massively.
@@brentmeistergeneral6074/videos I agree with you to an extent, but the World Cup knock-out conditions were TERRIBLE. This was a team that could stick it up their jumper and shred you to pieces when the opportunity came. 2002-03 is a fantastic example of this. This Six Nations team followed up with the incredible Autumn where they beat Australia and New Zealand before demolishing South Africa. Then, they followed up in their Summer tour by winning against the All Blacks by holding them off the line with a 6-man scrum.
Simpson-Daniel was a massive missed opportunity, but he was also incredibly injury prone. Wilkinson was much the same, but he was so pivotal to Newcastle that they played him anyway. The pragmatic Johnny that returned to England in 2007 was a necessity by that point.
England during 2002 played some of the most creative attacking rugby, they played a brand of rugby that out 'all blacked' the all blacks, it's not a coincidence that this coincided with Brian Ashton working on their attacking game, if only the Sir Clive, Andy Robinson and Brian Ashton team could have had longer then the England team could of gone onto even greater things
Not sure this video highlights his playmaking ability...
1:15 after reading Wilkinson's biography he said that Austin told him to do the chip
Which biography do you speak of? He has several now, I think. Mike Catt's was a good read. Will Greenwood's too. Neil Jenkins' was awful boring. I never got to Gregor Townsend's, but I hear it is good too.
World Class. And I'm Scottish
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