100%, if he weren't English he wouldn't be so disrespected... Oh well, probably fires him up. Or more likely, he doesn't give a shit ahaha. Such a player.
Hmmm I don’t think it matters which team he plays for he’s going to be hated. He’s the sort of player you want on your team but the sort of player you’ll despise on the other team.
If you're playing for him, it's so easy to give your all cause you know he won't ask you to do anything that he isn't willing to do. The guy is a real fighter and competitor. I got fired up hearing him speak at half time and I was just watching 😂😂😂😂
I think it's noteworthy that Lawes isn't seen doing any leadership in this video; it's all Farrell. Lawes might have had the c next to his name (for what I can only assume were racially motivated reasons - that's the only thing that makes any sense despite how appalling it is), but Farrell was the real captain.
Love this. Lawes spoke about relentlessness before the game and delivered just that - a proper leader. Smith's try punishing a single Aus mistake was NZ-esque, shows the benefit of having proper pace at 10. He'll be so much better for three games in charge.
Couldn't agree more. Smith will only get better and better. Lawes fending off in the dying minutes of the game was so illustrative of how he plays the game... Just doesn't stop.
This does not sound like a team that has lost faith in the head coach, nor does it seem to be a coach that has lost the locker room. This looks like a true team, one that is building something special, and knows exactly what they are trying to achieve.
I thank god every day, (awkward, as he made me an atheist) that I am an Englishman. The best of all nationalities across the planet. I'd loved to have fought at Waterloo or Agincourt, or possibly at the battle of the Nile or Trafalgar. Being a battle of Britain fighter pilot or in the SAS Iranian siege. I have to settle with being a WHITE HETEROSEXUAL middle aged male who has only served his country by being a Paramedic for 30 years and a helicopter pilot but either way being an Englishman is all that matters .
That was awesome congratulations lads on an outstanding summer series you all deserved this from start to finish and again Eddie Jones said this is a massive step now for the 2023 RWC all the best for your autumn series 🤙🏻
Great video of the background to the game all the determination and fight our team has well done to you all Owens talks really are strong onwards and upwards
Absolutely love these, been watching since it started with Rising Sons. Feels like a series of All or Nothing, it’s great! Big things to come from these boys, let hope it converts to a World Cup win
I was at the Perth match, I watched and listened to thousands of Wallys booing, cussing, berating England. This victory is so f'ing sweet you wouldn't believe. ENGLAND.......................MY.......................ENGLAND.
England now have a few young, nailed on starters in JVP, Steward and most likely Arundell... Freeman looked so great too, powerful and skillful with ball in hand. EJ seems to like to have a power winger and an out and out pace-y winger in the squad... Can imagine Freeman/Ollie Hassell-Collins being the former and Arundell/May/Lynagh being the latter. England certainly have depth on the wings!
@@joeboonmusic4004 yep. We have good depth on the wing and in the backrow. Exciting times ahead, just gotta see the bigger picture and stay patient. I trust Eddie, so I'm gonna back him and the boys the whole way. We all have opinions, that's sport and that's life. Wouldn't have it any other way but it's also important that ultimately we recognise that we all want England to do well so we gotta back the boys fully once the squad gets named
Well done lads had to really dig deep in that second half. Nothing looked like it was getting through our defence which is a big change from the start of the series.
EJ has a point in respect of the RFU narrow minded view of elite rugby based on middle class backgrounds. Hence its prejudice and ignorance in letting Edwards and Farrell embarrass Union as League skill, fitness and tactics begin to pay dividends with France and Ireland. The problem is not EJ but the ignorance of the English RFU elite.
It’s a good series win. However, you look at went right and what went wrong. Not being to beat a 14 man opposition; lack of consistent penetration from the backs. You could say that this is because of lack of team together - but that’s inevitable with a national team. As a team, Ireland have a year or so more experience as a fairly settled team - but we are kidding ourselves if we think England could match the flair and set plays that z Ireland showed. I’m not good enough to tell you where the issues lie; coaching? Players? - I don’t know but what we can all see is that the product is not advancing. We were told a year or so ago that it’s all coming together; be patient etc. - but I see little advancement. Good that new backs got some experience on tour and they may well be part of the future - but how many games before the WC? 3 in the Autumn? 5 in the Six Nations? Even if they all play all 90 minutes, it may not be enough - we don’t expect the 5 very good teams (sorry Wales, Scotland and Italy) to just turn up as cannon fodder; they have got their on issues of one kind or another and will love to dismantle England and ruin any form of confidence. Sorry, if all this reads as pure negative. There’s a balance between being positive and gaining confidence and fooling yourself.
You could have said the exact same thing around this time in 2018. The next year we were a game short of winning the World Cup. You don’t get to a RWC final by being a bad team.
@@somanytakennames you can get to the RWC by being a distinctly average team; Italy ere there for their 10th RWC. England got to the RWC final by playing quite well; outstandingly well against the ABs and dismally against the Boks. To win the RWC, I would suggest that you have to be lucky in the quarter and semi final draws and/or produce near perfect displays 3 times.
@@theofarmmanager267 *World Cup final The point is, a lot can change in a year. Ireland were close to unbeatable in 2018 (they were 1 game short of a perfect year), then look what happened in 2019.
he's awarding a scrum to the Wallabies, the ball was trapped in the ruck but they were deemed to be going forward. but time was already up so end of game
Ruck formed, and the ball doesn’t emerge. So that’s a scrum. The second part of the signal is to show Australia are moving forward when he stopped the ruck so it is Australia’s put in. However, time was up so the scrum couldn’t take place and the game ended.
Absolutely not. It's ideal having Farrell still being a huge leader in the team, and that's in addition to Courtney's inspirational leadership from the forward pack. And further leadership from other senior players. Plus, having a forward as captain for discussions with the ref works better. There are genuinely only upsides to it.
I’m afraid this has papered over some v familiar cracks, which after 3 yrs Jones has still failed to bridge. Great result for England to win away after such a poor 1 st test and 6 nations. Front row did well, second row , Itoje as expected almost hill average, chessum same. Back row lawes outstanding, bv ok for a change, Ludlum same as rwc shows promise, still only got one 9, others past it. Smith Farrell, need staggering amount of possession to score tries. Farrell is our slowest back him and new 13, Defense looked really poor. Marchant is our current best centre but can’t get picked, no real wingers, nowell is great until he’s run at by a speedster. 15 is quality. Makes me wonder how much injury and generally Aussies not playing that well actually led to our success. They need to improve in attack a lot to justify Jones leadership going forward. Blood baerberry, drop vunipolos fir good, don’t play old 9a they’re not the future.
I agree with your positives but I think you're being overwhelmingly negative... Hill looks like a starting lock now, he and Itoje will make a mean combo; Billy V looked back to his best, far more than okay and England have Dombrandt AND Barbeary on his heels at 8; definitely more than one 9... JVP was one of the great finds of the tournament, plus Randall, Quirke and Mitchell are exciting prospects too (Mitchell was pretty much the player of the premiership). The Farrell/Smith partnership has been trialled for about 4 games and they've got better each time, that partnership is showing great promise. Sure Farrell isn't a power/pace centre like Tuilagi (who may be selected for the next WC) but he is a fantastic distributor and playmaker. He and Smith will keep the opposition guessing at all times. With a powerful strike runner like Marchant, our midfield will be great. He has been getting picked, just not in the last 2 games. Not sure how on earth you can say we don't have any 'real winger's... Freeman and Arundell are extremely exciting players, whilst Nowell is possibly the best defensive winger in the world. Discounting that, England also have May coming back from injury AND world class wingers in the making like Ollie Hassell-Collins and Louis Lynagh. No wingers my arse! Look at the positives, this is just a moan... If you're not going to get behind the team, why bother watching?
@@joeboonmusic4004 I like all the players you’ve mentioned but how many were on tour and played any length of game time? How is barbearry anywhere? He was in squad all through 6 ns zero game time. Randall quirke indeed great but both stopped for care??. I think smith is potentially exceptional but we required a lot of ball to score the tries we did. We’ve only so long left to Rwc so marchant being dropped for two games now is again not a good way to build the right formula. Freeman has had one good game, we shall see, arundell looks to the manor born. But with v limited game time. Itoje hill doesn’t give us what lawes Itoje would or what Itoje and others have bought. I can see the hope you’re clutching at and you’re right to point the potential out, as I agree with much of it. But this was an important to win for morale which must be low after successive 6N debacles. We still haven’t got two new 9s, no established midfield and inexperienced speedsters (so we do t really know about them). Two facts Australia had a lot of injuries and we just scrapped home. I’m basing things on reality of current situation not my hope for the future. I’m delighted our props are focussed on tight work not being cool with ball, again though that’s against the scrummaging might of.Australia. Sorry to be a realist, definitely hold onto your hope. I’ve great faith in our talent, other than the coaches ability to maximise their potential.
@@joeboonmusic4004 btw- when bv was at his best he was our best player forward or back, he’s not playing at that level. As for the world class wingers in the making, now I see why they call us the arrogant English- How can u possibly know they’re world class, when they’ve around 15 mins between them at test level. Your arse must have a crystal ball stuffed up it.
@@joeboonmusic4004 also v funny you think nowell is best defensive winger in the world he was 100 % schooled in lions tour, he hasn’t got any quicker in Kat few years, otherwise he’s great but he’s no speedster.
@@mygoogle1482 What I mean is those players are waiting in the ranks to come into the squad, just like JVP/Freeman had been. Care was brought in, I imagine, for some experience to impart to JVP/Randall, as tests are about just that: experience. I get what you mean about Marchant, I think Porter looked a little shakey in the 3rd test, not sure why Marchant wasn't there but EJ clearly likes him as a player... Almost guarantee he's a starter come the WC. Freeman has only had 2 proper test matches with England so he'll need time, but looks great. Arundell had very little game time apparently because he hasn't yet trained for the full 80 at test level but I agree, would've been nice to see him come on sooner than he did! For sure I think Lawes brings a lot at lock but I think he brings more in the back row, if it ain't broke and all that. Hill is only getting better! I would say the midfield is the big thing to work on, I think the best we've played has been with Marchant in there so I'd like to see him with Farrell, personally. I definitely appreciate what you're saying, there's obviously work to be done, but we're definitely in a much better spot now, you can see what EJ is starting to build. The forwards were the stars for most of this series honestly, but we know we have the talent in the backs... Come the WC I'd love to see a backline of: JVP, Smith, Arundell, Farrell, Marchant, Lynagh/OHC, Steward, we shall see what happens! Oh also people have gone quiet about Dan Kelly, I was hoping to see him in this series honestly! Seems like our most likely powerful centre along with Ollie Lawrence.
Honestly Farrell is the most disrespected player ever by the armchair fan, he is an absolute leader, winner and should be in any team.
100%, if he weren't English he wouldn't be so disrespected... Oh well, probably fires him up. Or more likely, he doesn't give a shit ahaha. Such a player.
Hmmm I don’t think it matters which team he plays for he’s going to be hated. He’s the sort of player you want on your team but the sort of player you’ll despise on the other team.
Class player
If you're playing for him, it's so easy to give your all cause you know he won't ask you to do anything that he isn't willing to do. The guy is a real fighter and competitor. I got fired up hearing him speak at half time and I was just watching 😂😂😂😂
I think it's noteworthy that Lawes isn't seen doing any leadership in this video; it's all Farrell. Lawes might have had the c next to his name (for what I can only assume were racially motivated reasons - that's the only thing that makes any sense despite how appalling it is), but Farrell was the real captain.
Jonny Hill what an absolute legend 😂 he's what I think hobbits would look like if they grew to seven foot tall and had mullets
Love this. Lawes spoke about relentlessness before the game and delivered just that - a proper leader.
Smith's try punishing a single Aus mistake was NZ-esque, shows the benefit of having proper pace at 10. He'll be so much better for three games in charge.
Couldn't agree more. Smith will only get better and better. Lawes fending off in the dying minutes of the game was so illustrative of how he plays the game... Just doesn't stop.
Hopefully he improves; other than that one sprint he did nothing all series other than miss tackles!
This Inside Line stuff is so good! Gives a nice insight into the team. Could watch this all day :)
This does not sound like a team that has lost faith in the head coach, nor does it seem to be a coach that has lost the locker room. This looks like a true team, one that is building something special, and knows exactly what they are trying to achieve.
Well england have no structure in their back play and certainly have gone backwards since 2019.
This hasn't aged well. Heavy irony also.
Johnny hill not knowing how to split the backs up is the most forward thing ever, cracked me up (coming from a prop)
I thank god every day, (awkward, as he made me an atheist) that I am an Englishman. The best of all nationalities across the planet. I'd loved to have fought at Waterloo or Agincourt, or possibly at the battle of the Nile or Trafalgar. Being a battle of Britain fighter pilot or in the SAS Iranian siege. I have to settle with being a WHITE HETEROSEXUAL middle aged male who has only served his country by being a Paramedic for 30 years and a helicopter pilot but either way being an Englishman is all that matters .
God some of Farrell's team talks are actually quite scary, in a good way 😂
farrel is a true englishman in every sense of the word! "no mercey and break em"
Love these series. And love our team. EJ ain’t that bad either.
Immensely proud boys, well done 🌹
That was awesome congratulations lads on an outstanding summer series you all deserved this from start to finish and again Eddie Jones said this is a massive step now for the 2023 RWC all the best for your autumn series 🤙🏻
Great video of the background to the game all the determination and fight our team has well done to you all Owens talks really are strong onwards and upwards
Johnny May asking where the ketchup is from lol
Lawes is a phenomenal player and captain
18:49 is great from Farrell that’s a 50/50 call and he influenced the ref, you can see the ref thinking about it
hahahahah ok you keep telling yourself that
@@gorankellett732 it’s true, it’s a 50:50 call and Farrell influenced
@@gorankellett732 fact lad
England are the only country to win at football, cricket and rugby union at the SCG. FACT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Make England Great Again!
Absolutely love these, been watching since it started with Rising Sons. Feels like a series of All or Nothing, it’s great! Big things to come from these boys, let hope it converts to a World Cup win
"You can't have long hair it might get pulled" Jonny Hill got wrecked 😭
love the fact that they watched state of origin. Its what other teams should do. Watch each others game to learn different things.
When is the 3 game series DVD coming out please.
Many of us were unable to watch any of the full match games.
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A big series win but still a lot of work to do for the WRC. This was a well needed confident boost.
I was at the Perth match, I watched and listened to thousands of Wallys booing, cussing, berating England. This victory is so f'ing sweet you wouldn't believe. ENGLAND.......................MY.......................ENGLAND.
Love it that they hate us so much!!!!
Y’all setting the bar for quality bts rugby content, keep it up!
Well played 🇬🇧England.If you guys get to the Rugby final next yr.You guys meet the Springboks in the final .GOODBYE ENGLAND!!!!🤗🤗🤗🤭
Connect the comment by Eddie Jones at half time about leaving everything on the pitch and Courtney Lawes on his knees at full time! Leadership!
Fackin beaut lads, Bruces turned over in their own back yard. Eddie is a furkin geez of a manager with a great bunch of players.
To be fair, Farrell is a real leader.
Lawes, Genge and Farrel really stepped up
Just whisper it but squidge rugby prediction for RWC23 is bang on the money I think...
If squidge is right I am going to be very happy
Cortney Laws shouldn't be on his knees, he should be bowing......what a performance! Literally emptied the tank
dramatic music a tad much but these videos just keep getting better and better.
JVP has been the find of the series. Awesome player
England now have a few young, nailed on starters in JVP, Steward and most likely Arundell... Freeman looked so great too, powerful and skillful with ball in hand. EJ seems to like to have a power winger and an out and out pace-y winger in the squad... Can imagine Freeman/Ollie Hassell-Collins being the former and Arundell/May/Lynagh being the latter. England certainly have depth on the wings!
I think Cadan Murley would be ideal in the power winger role. He's like a faster Jack Nowell who barely makes mistakes.
@@lauro973 I haven't seen much of him tbh. I'll go check him out. What club does he play for?
@@joeboonmusic4004 yep. We have good depth on the wing and in the backrow. Exciting times ahead, just gotta see the bigger picture and stay patient. I trust Eddie, so I'm gonna back him and the boys the whole way. We all have opinions, that's sport and that's life. Wouldn't have it any other way but it's also important that ultimately we recognise that we all want England to do well so we gotta back the boys fully once the squad gets named
@@seanyshepfit Harlequins. He's more powerful than he looks, a really good defender and a very good jackaler
Fabulous! Thank you.
Ofc we weren’t perfect but hopefully this will mean people are a little less hard on EJ and have a little more faith that he knows what he’s doing
Well done lads had to really dig deep in that second half. Nothing looked like it was getting through our defence which is a big change from the start of the series.
10:40 Freddie steward: “I’ll never wear socks again”
Courtney Lawes speech at 12:55 worth recording for all.
Great tour lads - keep that togetherness and momentum
It’s really good to get some background of what it’s like.
Thank you for sharing that with us mere mortals.
Well done everyone for giving your best.
mortals wth you on about, were people you lunatic
Go on Faz lad. Hard as nails like his old man and Shaun Edwards
the improvements in filming/editing they've made since the rising sons 2 or 3 years ago is insane!
EJ has a point in respect of the RFU narrow minded view of elite rugby based on middle class backgrounds. Hence its prejudice and ignorance in letting Edwards and Farrell embarrass Union as League skill, fitness and tactics begin to pay dividends with France and Ireland. The problem is not EJ but the ignorance of the English RFU elite.
17:26 Farrel: Let's f•cking finish them now.
18:06 Smith
Favourite episode yet - what a group of players👏. A fantastic tour🌹
Absolutely fantastic insight…… incredible togetherness. V v v bright future for these lads I’m sure
Having Jonny Hill as a focal point of this, as england wrap it up 2-1 , is just poetic.
Man this ep got me fired up!! Well done lads, the finish line is in sight now
Can't seem to find full highlights of 3rd test anywhere . Any ideas ?
This is a great vid. Really good to see behind the scenes
These have got MUCH better. Really enjoyed that.
Well done lads. Winning in Australia is awesome!
Freddie looks like Dylan Hartleys son if you look closely lol
Just such a brilliant team and they are all just amazing!
Well done lads. Might have over cooked the epic music somewhat haha, sounds like we're battling Thanos rather than playing the Aussies
Great vid, looks like a fun trip
12:15 red card
England our England.
Brings a tear to your eye
Awesome!!!
Well done lads 🔥👏
I love these videos
Nick Ezikwe sounds like Rio Ferdinand
Guy porter wasn’t in this video much
That’s not how you spell budgie …
what happen with farrel voice? hahah
😘
It’s a good series win. However, you look at went right and what went wrong. Not being to beat a 14 man opposition; lack of consistent penetration from the backs. You could say that this is because of lack of team together - but that’s inevitable with a national team. As a team, Ireland have a year or so more experience as a fairly settled team - but we are kidding ourselves if we think England could match the flair and set plays that z Ireland showed.
I’m not good enough to tell you where the issues lie; coaching? Players? - I don’t know but what we can all see is that the product is not advancing. We were told a year or so ago that it’s all coming together; be patient etc. - but I see little advancement. Good that new backs got some experience on tour and they may well be part of the future - but how many games before the WC? 3 in the Autumn? 5 in the Six Nations? Even if they all play all 90 minutes, it may not be enough - we don’t expect the 5 very good teams (sorry Wales, Scotland and Italy) to just turn up as cannon fodder; they have got their on issues of one kind or another and will love to dismantle England and ruin any form of confidence.
Sorry, if all this reads as pure negative. There’s a balance between being positive and gaining confidence and fooling yourself.
You could have said the exact same thing around this time in 2018.
The next year we were a game short of winning the World Cup. You don’t get to a RWC final by being a bad team.
@@somanytakennames you can get to the RWC by being a distinctly average team; Italy ere there for their 10th RWC.
England got to the RWC final by playing quite well; outstandingly well against the ABs and dismally against the Boks. To win the RWC, I would suggest that you have to be lucky in the quarter and semi final draws and/or produce near perfect displays 3 times.
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*World Cup final
The point is, a lot can change in a year. Ireland were close to unbeatable in 2018 (they were 1 game short of a perfect year), then look what happened in 2019.
@@somanytakennames I would love to believe you. For me, it would be heart over logic. If you are right, then give an address where I can send a beer
Well done boys, proud to be English. Love the passion shown. Eddie Jones, great coach
What is the referee's final signal at the ruck at 19:36
he's awarding a scrum to the Wallabies, the ball was trapped in the ruck but they were deemed to be going forward. but time was already up so end of game
Ruck formed, and the ball doesn’t emerge. So that’s a scrum. The second part of the signal is to show Australia are moving forward when he stopped the ruck so it is Australia’s put in. However, time was up so the scrum couldn’t take place and the game ended.
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Faz needs the captaincy back…
Nah. He's not diplomatic enough with refs. That's important. He's a hell of a squad leader though.
I don't think he cares who the captain is. He'll be saying his piece regardless. Exactly what the team needs.
Absolutely not. It's ideal having Farrell still being a huge leader in the team, and that's in addition to Courtney's inspirational leadership from the forward pack. And further leadership from other senior players. Plus, having a forward as captain for discussions with the ref works better. There are genuinely only upsides to it.
I’m afraid this has papered over some v familiar cracks, which after 3 yrs Jones has still failed to bridge. Great result for England to win away after such a poor 1 st test and 6 nations. Front row did well, second row , Itoje as expected almost hill average, chessum same. Back row lawes outstanding, bv ok for a change, Ludlum same as rwc shows promise, still only got one 9, others past it. Smith Farrell, need staggering amount of possession to score tries. Farrell is our slowest back him and new 13, Defense looked really poor. Marchant is our current best centre but can’t get picked, no real wingers, nowell is great until he’s run at by a speedster. 15 is quality.
Makes me wonder how much injury and generally Aussies not playing that well actually led to our success.
They need to improve in attack a lot to justify Jones leadership going forward.
Blood baerberry, drop vunipolos fir good, don’t play old 9a they’re not the future.
I agree with your positives but I think you're being overwhelmingly negative... Hill looks like a starting lock now, he and Itoje will make a mean combo; Billy V looked back to his best, far more than okay and England have Dombrandt AND Barbeary on his heels at 8; definitely more than one 9... JVP was one of the great finds of the tournament, plus Randall, Quirke and Mitchell are exciting prospects too (Mitchell was pretty much the player of the premiership). The Farrell/Smith partnership has been trialled for about 4 games and they've got better each time, that partnership is showing great promise. Sure Farrell isn't a power/pace centre like Tuilagi (who may be selected for the next WC) but he is a fantastic distributor and playmaker. He and Smith will keep the opposition guessing at all times. With a powerful strike runner like Marchant, our midfield will be great. He has been getting picked, just not in the last 2 games. Not sure how on earth you can say we don't have any 'real winger's... Freeman and Arundell are extremely exciting players, whilst Nowell is possibly the best defensive winger in the world. Discounting that, England also have May coming back from injury AND world class wingers in the making like Ollie Hassell-Collins and Louis Lynagh. No wingers my arse! Look at the positives, this is just a moan... If you're not going to get behind the team, why bother watching?
@@joeboonmusic4004 I like all the players you’ve mentioned but how many were on tour and played any length of game time? How is barbearry anywhere? He was in squad all through 6 ns zero game time. Randall quirke indeed great but both stopped for care??. I think smith is potentially exceptional but we required a lot of ball to score the tries we did. We’ve only so long left to Rwc so marchant being dropped for two games now is again not a good way to build the right formula. Freeman has had one good game, we shall see, arundell looks to the manor born. But with v limited game time. Itoje hill doesn’t give us what lawes Itoje would or what Itoje and others have bought. I can see the hope you’re clutching at and you’re right to point the potential out, as I agree with much of it. But this was an important to win for morale which must be low after successive 6N debacles. We still haven’t got two new 9s, no established midfield and inexperienced speedsters (so we do t really know about them). Two facts Australia had a lot of injuries and we just scrapped home. I’m basing things on reality of current situation not my hope for the future. I’m delighted our props are focussed on tight work not being cool with ball, again though that’s against the scrummaging might of.Australia. Sorry to be a realist, definitely hold onto your hope. I’ve great faith in our talent, other than the coaches ability to maximise their potential.
@@joeboonmusic4004 btw- when bv was at his best he was our best player forward or back, he’s not playing at that level. As for the world class wingers in the making, now I see why they call us the arrogant English- How can u possibly know they’re world class, when they’ve around 15 mins between them at test level. Your arse must have a crystal ball stuffed up it.
@@joeboonmusic4004 also v funny you think nowell is best defensive winger in the world he was 100 % schooled in lions tour, he hasn’t got any quicker in Kat few years, otherwise he’s great but he’s no speedster.
@@mygoogle1482 What I mean is those players are waiting in the ranks to come into the squad, just like JVP/Freeman had been. Care was brought in, I imagine, for some experience to impart to JVP/Randall, as tests are about just that: experience. I get what you mean about Marchant, I think Porter looked a little shakey in the 3rd test, not sure why Marchant wasn't there but EJ clearly likes him as a player... Almost guarantee he's a starter come the WC.
Freeman has only had 2 proper test matches with England so he'll need time, but looks great. Arundell had very little game time apparently because he hasn't yet trained for the full 80 at test level but I agree, would've been nice to see him come on sooner than he did! For sure I think Lawes brings a lot at lock but I think he brings more in the back row, if it ain't broke and all that. Hill is only getting better!
I would say the midfield is the big thing to work on, I think the best we've played has been with Marchant in there so I'd like to see him with Farrell, personally.
I definitely appreciate what you're saying, there's obviously work to be done, but we're definitely in a much better spot now, you can see what EJ is starting to build. The forwards were the stars for most of this series honestly, but we know we have the talent in the backs... Come the WC I'd love to see a backline of: JVP, Smith, Arundell, Farrell, Marchant, Lynagh/OHC, Steward, we shall see what happens!
Oh also people have gone quiet about Dan Kelly, I was hoping to see him in this series honestly! Seems like our most likely powerful centre along with Ollie Lawrence.
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