England rugby squad announced 13th Jan - who's in/out?

[irocfan]

well as it says EJ announces his 1st England squad tomorrow - who's in out? And once named... what do you think?

[irocfan]

seriously???? I thought all this leaking would have stopped with a new regime in place

[irocfan]

I'll admit that I was hoping for Cips - however I think that Austin Healey nailed it when he said that a 10 who is on a high 60s kick-success rate is not going to get picked and that appears to be the in Cip's armoury. TBH Fazlet strikes me as being a and is slow of thought and leg - that being said he does seem to nail his kicks which is 'money in the bank' and enables you to build up a lead/chip away at an opponent's lead. I think that GF is the fortunate one since he does seem to be in poor form - though as the saying goes "poor form is temporary, class permanent." Surprised he's only going with 2 10s but I guess that's covered by my other complaint next. I'm not happy to see Izno Goode included still - but hey playing for a team doing well will get you noticed.

[irocfan]

I suspect that Robshaw must be having a quiet chuckle to himself that Woods was canvassing for his job as captain and doesn't even make the squad. It's going to be an interesting few weeks before the 6N (potential injuries) and then the 6N itself

[irocfan]

yup - you'd have thought that having worked so hard to get back he'd be a little more careful... or was it just bad luck?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/35362589

[irocfan]

Kermit power said:

Smollet said:

Someone who looks very much like Danny Care is playing for Quins this evening.

Ben Bottica, maybe?

DC was a sub - and Quins got humped

[irocfan]

XCP said:

Might as well paint a target on his back.

to be fair 50 caps - 1 yellow. No it's not perfect but he's nowhere near as bad as some others

[irocfan]

XCP said:

Why is there a 'squad'. Why can't we just pick who we like?

Long story short (IIRC) because the clubs said "no"

[irocfan]

I'll be honest - I'm getting a little concerned. I'll accept that (as much as I dislike his style of play and his petulance on the field) he is the form 10 in England (interestingly enough he had a massive brain fart t'other day and it was all glossed over) and GF seems to have totally lost his mojo, the last ball player, AG, has to play a blinder as IMO he has never impressed at international level.

[irocfan]

Cheib said:

The squad really doesn't look that different...rumour has it Haskell is the open side....

Which is somewhat puzzling - I thought an open had to be quick as well as quick witted.....

[irocfan]

I has much disappoint

[irocfan]

I must admit that I can't see how having Hask @ 7 and CR @ 6 is that much different (if at all) from CR @ 7 and Hask @ 6