England person flown retired of the blocks successful their opening 2 games of the autumn against New Zealand and Australia - but they are similar Jekyll and Hyde.
I privation them to backmost themselves for 80 minutes.
There are parts of their crippled I americium unhappy with, but they are besides playing immoderate truly bully stuff.
You tin archer they prepared precise good for Saturday's crippled by the mode they started and broke the Wallabies down. I cannot responsibility their endeavour, creativity and spirit, but it was Australia who came retired connected apical successful winning 42-37.
For immoderate reason, 1 of England's defaults erstwhile they are up and successful power of a crippled is to effort and adjacent it down with a precise antagonistic benignant of kicking.
That is not going to let them to triumph games against apical opposition. It hasn't happened once, oregon twice; it is relentless.
Unless it is hammering it down and the lucifer is simply a due arm-wrestle - similar against South Africa successful the rainfall successful past year's World Cup semi-final successful Paris - it volition not beryllium bully capable to triumph these games.
England travel unstuck erstwhile they spell backmost to their violative box-kicking alternatively than playing successful a mode that got them into that starring position. I find it odd.
Everyone changes however they play rugby depending connected the score, the clock, the referee and the players astatine their disposal.
But England person continued to beryllium successful bully positions with 15 men connected the tract and squander it by going to this low-risk rugby, which kills their momentum and gives the absorption a breather and an accidental to counter-attack.
I americium guessing it is simply a statistical method of coaching.
Coach Steve Borthwick seems to deliberation it is going to summation the fig of times you volition get the shot back. But carnivore successful caput you person the shot successful the archetypal place, and you person unit and large players.
England are giving that distant successful instrumentality for the bounce of the ball, oregon a punishment they tin capitalise on.
Losing Curry changed the balance
It was large to person continuity successful the enactment with the aforesaid starting XV from the decision by New Zealand, but losing Tom Curry to a caput wounded aboriginal connected wholly changed England's equilibrium successful the backmost row.
They past allowed Australia to get a spot of velocity astatine the ruck - and were connected the backmost foot.
With Curry going disconnected for Alex Dombrandt, England were without a jackler to scrap for the shot astatine the breakdown. They were practically playing with 2 fig eights successful Dombrandt and Ben Earl, and a six successful Chandler Cunningham-South. It made a quality successful the mode they were acceptable up.
It was evident however Australia were going to onslaught England. They had targeted the breakdown to prime and spell done the mediate oregon astir the edges.
England support precise hard and accelerated and, due to the fact that they are advancing up truthful accelerated towards the opposition, they are leaving rucks unguarded. When was the past clip you saw an planetary scrum-half throwing a dummy and making meterage astatine will? Tate McDermott had 2 successful a row.
You cannot expect to triumph a Test if you are going to vessel 42 points.
It is simply a monolithic fixture and, fixed the caller past of England v Australia, it has not been bully for the Wallabies.
But they came to play and trial England physically. I americium definite England would person prepared themselves for that benignant of Test, but I don't deliberation anybody thought Australia could lucifer England up front.
Hopefully England volition beryllium inconsolable and that volition springiness them plentifulness of motivation.
I'm baffled George was taken off
The beforehand enactment is simply a pugnacious spot to play but, if you are asking Jamie George to skipper the side, helium has to beryllium successful the crippled erstwhile the large decisions request to beryllium made.
If you are asking him to tally the week, to tally the campy and to beryllium the leader, past erstwhile it is due knockings you request your champion leaders connected the pitch.
I americium truthful baffled Geroge was taken disconnected aft 51 minutes. I saw it hap aboriginal past week excessively and you cannot person your skipper travel disconnected that aboriginal into the 2nd half.
Even if helium comes disconnected aft 65 minutes, you person acceptable yourself up and the absorption are a spot much tired.
I don't judge it is simply a fittingness happening due to the fact that helium does not travel disconnected aft 50 minutes for Saracens.
No crushed to fearfulness satellite champions
I truly similar this England broadside and the endowment excavation they have.
When they play the mode they want, they are ace unsafe - and they are the width of a station and 1 signifier astatine the decease distant from being 2 wins from two.
The world is they are successful the large league astatine the moment.
There is nary crushed wherefore England should not bushed satellite champions South Africa adjacent weekend. After the past 2 performances, they volition person a chance. It volition travel down to decision-making astatine cardinal moments successful the game.
If you get yourself 15-3 up against South Africa successful the archetypal 20 minutes, similar England were against Australia, you whitethorn arsenic good support ploughing connected similar it is inactive 0-0. You cognize South Africa are going to people points.
You bash not unopen up store and springiness the momentum back. You marque it a 15-point spread and support your ft connected the pedal.
By coming disconnected the gas, they near themselves susceptible to that superb 83rd-minute effort from Australia.
It was large play by Australia - a fantastic signifier of 4 oregon 5 passes, a truly skillful offload by Len Ikitau and determination was nary catching Max Jorgensen arsenic helium sprinted clear.
You cannot constituent the digit astatine immoderate England player, but possibly arsenic a full they were backing disconnected and not wanting to springiness distant a penalty.
Against plentifulness of teams that would person been the close play, but Australia sniffed an opportunity, backed themselves and spun wide. The assurance to get that done was brilliant.