warrior1973 wrote:
Ablett should have never have been in the England team!!! If McBannana see's him as an international centre then there's serious problems!!!. Hate to say it to you Leeds supporters, but......Peacock Sinfield JJB and also Burrow should'nt have ever been in the team also. All have given you good service at club level and been excellent players in their time, but these days they just seem a less of a player they used to be. To say McBannana picked players off form is a joke......maybe he's got one eye on the Leeds job for next season and maybe thats why he picked so many out of form Leeds players?.......Dont mean to make these comments to sound harsh!!!!
I would agree with much of what you have posted but for the fact that apart from Hall, Roby and Tomkins you could say the above about the entire team. Your criticism of Ablett gives away your club bias as he was obviously strong on defence, tidy and comfortable with the ball. He was never going to get quality ball from that half back pairing in those conditions to attack with. With a little pace he would be, by some distance, the best all around English centre we have. Would he be my ideal choice at Centre for England - of course not, but he definately doesn't deserve singling out based on last night's display.
As for Burrow, I'm not sure what he was expected to do because watching him I couldn't work out what position he was actually supposed to be playing? He wasn't 9 he wasn't 7, WTF was he? Second row? I suspect he was chucked on with the thought that "he's Burrow, he'll just do something". Awesome coaching.
Sinflield and Chase doesn't work. Kev just can't play 6 with that amout of pace, but his task was not helped by having Rangi Chase running around sideways across the front of him like a headless chicken. Chase is a complete liability, he's so out of his depth I'm surprised he didn't drown in the wet grass. His defence consists of being hopeless for 90% of the time then running up and trying to get sent off for the other 10%. His attack onsists of desperately trying to do something himself, when he's run around for 5 minutes looking for space that doesn't exist then he thinks about maybe he should give it to a teamate.
I thought it also highlighted the "quality" of the international "stars" that we recruit into the game over here. Absolute rubbish, poor basic skills and really never in a game against one of the poorest looking England teams I've ever seen. Do we really need this hoard of average back row forwards and one dimensional props? Tommy Leuleui - yes - quality of the highest order - the rest? Come on - we don't need them.
