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<blockquote data-quote="tim2000s" data-source="post: 961695" data-attributes="member: 30007"><p>That result only highlighted what we knew already. Under pressure this England team had no leaders and was poor at decision making (Robshaw's no kick decision against Wales is the third or fourth time he's made that kind of error) and that our selection policy has been shot to pieces - choose a fly half and stick with the selection, and in the run up, Ford was the outstanding fly half, not the son of the back's coach, oh, cough. Our inability to win a Grand Slam in the last few years kind of hammers this home, in what, in all fairness, has been a poor Six Nations competition for that period. </p><p></p><p>Add to that the complete unwillingness to play the guys who have gone to France or elsewhere, or had a bit of the dog about them (Armitage, Hartley, Cipriani) and you find that England couldn't field their best possible team (even for a home world cup) and were hampered by dogma. </p><p></p><p>I hope that we see Lancaster go (he's no Clive Woodward, whatever anyone says, and losing out in the groups of your own World Cup is truly a disaster and doesn't deserve another four years) and we take a long hard look at how we build the England team. The policy of ignoring the French based players and messed up selection has really killed this one. Sadly, the infighting and narrow self interest of those in power at the RFU probably means we have another 20 years to wait before we see any change.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tim2000s, post: 961695, member: 30007"] That result only highlighted what we knew already. Under pressure this England team had no leaders and was poor at decision making (Robshaw's no kick decision against Wales is the third or fourth time he's made that kind of error) and that our selection policy has been shot to pieces - choose a fly half and stick with the selection, and in the run up, Ford was the outstanding fly half, not the son of the back's coach, oh, cough. Our inability to win a Grand Slam in the last few years kind of hammers this home, in what, in all fairness, has been a poor Six Nations competition for that period. Add to that the complete unwillingness to play the guys who have gone to France or elsewhere, or had a bit of the dog about them (Armitage, Hartley, Cipriani) and you find that England couldn't field their best possible team (even for a home world cup) and were hampered by dogma. I hope that we see Lancaster go (he's no Clive Woodward, whatever anyone says, and losing out in the groups of your own World Cup is truly a disaster and doesn't deserve another four years) and we take a long hard look at how we build the England team. The policy of ignoring the French based players and messed up selection has really killed this one. Sadly, the infighting and narrow self interest of those in power at the RFU probably means we have another 20 years to wait before we see any change. [/QUOTE]
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