Yep. Two comparatively good games and then that. I just don’t see how it can be worth it.Spiffy wrote:So.... Ummm, arrrrh... Youngs ?
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2003 V 2019
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Could have done with your belligerence today MikeyMikey Brown wrote:Yep. Two comparatively good games and then that. I just don’t see how it can be worth it.Spiffy wrote:So.... Ummm, arrrrh... Youngs ?
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Yup, I thought so too.
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He was poor, very poor, behind a pack getting the shit kicked out of it, essentially he was this week's Aaron SmithSpiffy wrote:So.... Ummm, arrrrh... Youngs ?
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Hey I never said he was good, just that he wasn't given credit for the good things that he did. Helpfully, he solved that problem today by not doing any of them.Spiffy wrote:So.... Ummm, arrrrh... Youngs ?
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Nobody was good today, maybe Tuilagi, Watson and May get marked as not poor, the rest, well it wasn't goodPuja wrote:Hey I never said he was good, just that he wasn't given credit for the good things that he did. Helpfully, he solved that problem today by not doing any of them.Spiffy wrote:So.... Ummm, arrrrh... Youngs ?
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It’s the usual approach of looking at a player in isolation whose role is almost entirely not driven by isolated actions, but moreover dependent on others. Or laziness as it is otherwise known.Digby wrote:Nobody was good today, maybe Tuilagi, Watson and May get marked as not poor, the rest, well it wasn't goodPuja wrote:Hey I never said he was good, just that he wasn't given credit for the good things that he did. Helpfully, he solved that problem today by not doing any of them.Spiffy wrote:So.... Ummm, arrrrh... Youngs ?
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Similar to blaming a 10 behind a defeated pack.
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Not sure that I can decipher that, but are you saying that Youngs was crap only because he was playing behind a beaten pack?Epaminondas Pules wrote:It’s the usual approach of looking at a player in isolation whose role is almost entirely not driven by isolated actions, but moreover dependent on others. Or laziness as it is otherwise known.Digby wrote:Nobody was good today, maybe Tuilagi, Watson and May get marked as not poor, the rest, well it wasn't goodPuja wrote:
Hey I never said he was good, just that he wasn't given credit for the good things that he did. Helpfully, he solved that problem today by not doing any of them.
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Similar to blaming a 10 behind a defeated pack.
If so, I would not agree. I'd say he was just plain sloppy. The humping of his pack did not help his cause, but he had several howlers, many unforced, and did not look like an international-level SH. A top player should be capable of a fairly consistent level of performance, within reason, even when on the back foot. Hard to see that Youngs is the best SH in England.