| Well I didn't see the AB's V Eng game so I can't comment other than to say that the scoreline looked like a whooping!
The reviews I read all pointed to the AB's having gotten their front 5 sorted out which has been a bit of a weakness - having said that, England fielded their heaviest pack ever and still got pushed around! Thats not good. And you're playing Worsely out of position!
Sir Clive is going to have to dig into his bag of tricks and come out with something new because everyone has learned from the World Cup, looked at the stats to see how many points came out of set piece play etc - and worked on those area's. Although the Wallaby lineout was crap against Scotland (admittedly that is one of Scotlands strengths) and I know that Eddie Jones pinpointed that as an area to improve.
I don't think Dallaglio is much of a leader to be honest, but filling the shoes of someone like Johnson was always going to be hard. We went through it when John Eales retired - it took Gregan a while to grow into the position.
Prediction time: I think that England will lose to the AB's this weekend but Aus is going to have to improve a lot to beat them, although they should gel a bit more, Mortlock will be back and put the Scottish away on Saturday. I think Eng will lose against the Wallabies as well.
There you go, I've hung them out there so we'll see what happens.  |