When I was a very young lad, My father took me and my oldest brother to a rugby match it was between Cardiff (the glamer boys at the time) and Pontypridd, My brother and father were discussing the game while I sat very quietly listening to my two heros talk rugby, Two very good Halfbacks for cardiff my brother sez to my father, might need a bit of watching.
Well the scrum half had a good game but the Flyhalf/1st 5/8 had a shocker, The scrum half was Gareth Edwards, 1st5/8 was Barry John,
Yeah Priestland had a bad game which wasnt all down to the English. When George North broke through, my first thought and that of my companians was try , he will just run through Foden.
Skrettle came from his wing and tap tackled him, was a brilliant tackle and saved the try. When Priestland gathered the ball he kicked for the corner to a man and woman we all shouted too frigging hard. His game deteriorated from there, Kicked when he should have run, run when he should have kicked etc,
Priestland plays heads up rugby scans whats in front of him and reacts usually very quickly, He gets our back line moving and mostly makes all the right moves.
Englands defence as I've already said in earlier posts comes up very quickly, they did to some degree close our attack befor it started, other teams will look at this, so we need a stratagem to counter this. The fact that phillps delivery is not the fastest does not help, perhaps we will have to stand a little deeper, or a kick over the top we have some very good strike runners in our backline, Hope I'm not boring you, I'll sign off