Rugby Saturday

[psychocandy]

WHS.

England have more than enough talent to win with, all they have to do is work out how to get the ball to them. Kicking it to the opposition - especially one as capable as the Welsh back three - is simply stupid. But then stupidity has long been a key element of the English game, they're brilliant until their plan stops working (or is found out) and then they are lost. The ABs and SA win because they have a dozen players on the park who can think like a No 10 when they have to. And can you really see Tuliagi having the vision to do what Basteraud did to the Italian half-backs, chipping ahead and recovering his own ball on the fly?

And Bastarraud is not the sharpest tool in the shed. (Remember he decided to make up a story about being mugged in NZ a few years ago!)