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Dave Cowper (27)
Pocock has been awful. I think four penalties conceded.
If his performance is classified as awful then we need a new scale with about 10 rungs below awful. He had 2 penalties conceded (pretty standard for an on the ball 7), at the time I recall one of them being very questionable. Made the highest number of tackles with 1 missed, an official turnover along with being involved with at least 2 more (one on our 5m line with fiji hot on attack). No handling errors, no turnovers conceded and no bad passes which I can recall. Carried the ball well in traffic and cleaned up a lot of other player's mistakes.
His performance was not of the calibre of the one man powerhouse he was in the 2011 & 2015 rwc but to call his performance awful is flat out incorrect.