of form (Ashton). With only a fTrue - but Lancaster needs the tour to NZ to be a preparation for the RWC, not a nursery.
yes... and no. What's teh focus here? and where is "the nuursery" ? In some ways naturtally the saxons are tghe nursery. But with such ninnury lists the niursery now becomes the nursery for the muums+toddlers group and tghe main squad becomes the deep end swimming lesson". So when the nursey hasn;t quote copmpeketd its job because of external factors... where does the jursery then start? topurs it seems to em no moatter how important for bragging rights and "think of tyhis next RWC" then becopm,e the nirsery. uinless you as coach are in a aposition to say - err... this 6N/RWC we are noty looking to win it ?
what on earth do you8 do? every full on iintyernatioal otherwise bec0mes "must win" - and there IS no nursery at the top end.
Its a circle that can;t be squred. there are no alternatives.
basically what i am sayig is yes I understand where May has come from (and Wilson !). And why he/they are rthere. But there experiment has - if not really failed, at leats not come rto fruition - not worked. So what next> Coninue wi5h someone that has not deleivered for m"one more series" - or try someone else.
Or do you say May never had a chance all 6N so blame Burrell. (and would MT would have been any different for a winger?). So you either sack both/all the centres and start again or you look for hungrier wingers?
If he [Lancaster] does that, we are back to hoping Ashton can recover some form. He's had more chances than May and failed to take them.
True - but maybe imp[ortantly for him he took the early chances. He's not in the fame anyway. If lancaster canlt find a true winger that is hungry then play MT on the wing - if you belive ehis defense is good enough. that thens ends a signal - if you are a left wing in England and you want to wear that shirt - coem and make a claim. Or get fit (to be fair).
Was it worth putting aside development to try to put a cricket score on Italy in order to have a hope of the 6N title on points difference? Or treat the (very unlikely) 6N title on points difference as secondary to development?
there's the rub. As an internationall coach there are no "development games" - unless you want to be patronising. Every game you play is a "must win" game. Apart from the pathetically meaningless two warm up games on tour! which are now no okre than "here is what i want as our A team, please gell in 160 minutes"!
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