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Stuart Barnes returns to skysports.com with a line on the World Cup contenders and answers to your questions.
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Stuart Barnes returns to skysports.com with a line on the World Cup contenders and answers to your questions.
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Comments
Kieron O'flynn says...
Stuart, As you have previously stated the problem lies in England shear lack of creativity, but this is not down to the players picked but the positions in which they are chosen! Our main problem is in the inside centre berth, the ideal type of centre is the god that is Yannick Jauzion powerful, quick, strong in defence and able to find holes in any defence. Unfortunately both of our inside centres lack real pace to worry any defence, but we do have one man who fits all the criteria to make a fantastic centre and has often played there at club level to devastating effect and that is Josh lewsey. Originally he started as a fly half and he does have the distribution skills, he has the power the speed and the skill to excel in this position and his movement in from the three quarters would open up a gap for Paul Sackey who as we have seen has devastating pace. Outside Josh you put anyone of our outside centres and you have a devastating back line if you were to include the likes of Strettle And James Simpson-Daniel. Please tell me I am wrong! Kieron from Gloucestershire
Posted 08:36 7th September 2007
Joel Wainwright says...
Hi Stuart, I am wondering what your views on Andy Farrell as an England centre are? I will firstly admit that i havn't seen him play much club rugby and maybe my view is a little blinkered by that. But so far in an England shirt he has done little to impress me. Against Wales he was virtually invisible again, that was until he was clean through under the posts only for him to lack any pace what so ever and subsequently get tackled. His partner in the centre Hipkiss looked quite the oposite and was full of inteligent, fast direct breaks that you would expect from an England centre. I have real concerns that not only will his lack of pace hinder us in finishing off oportunites, but against quick breaking teams he simply wont be there in defence and people will breeze past him. I know we don't have great depth in that position but he wouldn't be in my starting XV.
Posted 14:45 9th August 2007
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