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Originally Posted by The Phantom  Well it wasn't a bad opening weekend all in all. For the most part I enjoyed the Wales vs. Ireland game. I just think we threw away a great opportunity in beating the favourites. Too many forward passes, and not enough clinical finishing cost us deer. If either Shane Williams or Mark Jones were playing on the wings we'd have scored at least 2 tries. But Czekaj and Luscome on the wings it never looked likely. Steven Jones needs a big game against Scotland other wise he'll be for the chop. Which isn't ideal when he's the captain.
The press have over hyped Johnny to the Max. Anything than a stellar performance against the Italians and they'll be all on his back again. |
I disagree!! I don't think they "overhyped" Jonny at all. This was a guy stepping back into international test rugby after three and a quarter years away from it, barely playing very much club rugby either in that period and, basically, looking just as good if not better than he ever was. Regardless of how he carries on in this tournament, that by itself was a truly incredible performance.
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do think the teams performance was overhyped. It was 7th best team beating 9th best team in the world after all. But it was a good start after what we've been through.
As for Wales, the one thing I think that went wrong for them was the performances of Jones and Hook together. Between them they recycled and passed and went back and all around without ever creating an opening. They passed the Welsh team to death whilst never actually looking like they had the pace or skill to actually make any sort of breakthrough. Is this one of the negatives of having two fly halves playing together?
Dare I say Mr Henson would have been an improvement and a more dynamic solution?