I thought Ford was poor against Fiji and was targeted because of his size. Farrell is better in the tackle and did play well when he came on. I'm not sold on Farrell but I'm not as put out as some by his selection. Wales try to bully and I don't see a problem in standing up to them and relying on strength and fast wings.
Quote from: peter w on September 25, 2015, 10:02:22 AMI thought Ford was poor against Fiji and was targeted because of his size. Farrell is better in the tackle and did play well when he came on. I'm not sold on Farrell but I'm not as put out as some by his selection. Wales try to bully and I don't see a problem in standing up to them and relying on strength and fast wings. Getting the ball to those fast wings is the problem. Big strong centres are great but they have to have good hands, Burgess is massively inexperienced and Barritt is a terrible passer so I can't see us working the ball wide with pace and accuracy to exploit gaps. If we do score tries it's going to be forward push-overs or cross-field kicks and, in my opinion, Farrell's kicking from hand isn't accurate enough for that, Ford is far better at those.As I've said he's picked a team to win penalties and kick points and given himself no alternative if it doesn't work, Slade on the bench ahead of Goode would've at least given the option to have a creative centre, or Nowell gives you the option to move Watson into there (he hasn't played centre much at any level but he has the defence and passing to be an option). I just can't work out what Goode brings that isn't covered by Farrell and Ford, it's a pathetic selection of a player who has done nothing to deserve his place in the squad.To put this in context I'd liken playing Watson and May outside that midfield to Villa last season under Lambert, it's boring as fuck and you're making a very potent attacking threat look shit by giving it scraps to work with.