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We’ve beaten the English champions and still get doubted
DIR By: DOK
Date: April 13, 2022, 4:26 pm
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Montpellier’s Zach Mercer
HTML https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/apr/13/montpelliers-zach-mercer-weve-beaten-the-english-champions-and-still-get-doubted
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Re: We’ve beaten the English champions and still get doubted
DIR By: TeddingtonQuin
Date: April 13, 2022, 4:37 pm
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Oh no you haven't! It's only half time!!
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Re: We’ve beaten the English champions and still get doubted
DIR By: championes
Date: April 14, 2022, 12:13 am
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Please can we win just so this quote can be thrown back at
him…..
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Re: We’ve beaten the English champions and still get doubted
DIR By: JammyGit
Date: April 14, 2022, 3:11 am
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That Japan game really did make Eddie go doolally. Mercer made 1
metre in the game so is canned forever age 20. Lozowski has a
poor game so is canned forever aged 24 despite being a fantastic
player in a problem position for England. Care disagrees with
Eddie so is persona non grata after that.
Daly has a shocker under the high ball and in defence and can't
be crowbarred out of the team for years.
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Re: We’ve beaten the English champions and still get doubted
DIR By: championes
Date: April 14, 2022, 3:53 am
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Please don’t mention England, I was in a happy place….
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Re: We’ve beaten the English champions and still get doubted
DIR By: MaidstoneQuin
Date: April 14, 2022, 3:55 am
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Mercer if he plays cards right could maybe get on the tour to
Australia. I'm not entirely up with the selection policy for
outside England though.
To me, Simmonds was fairly quiet in the 6 nations. 8 vs 8
Dombrandt was the clear winner and made more of an impact across
the park. For all the sing song about his carrying I didn't
think Simmonds offered anymore than what BV would of.
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Re: We’ve beaten the English champions and still get doubted
DIR By: JammyGit
Date: April 14, 2022, 4:20 am
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The selection policy is "no", basically. There was talk about
"special circumstances" for overseas selection when Fat Steffon
was doing his thing in France but nothing came of that; no-one's
going to break the selection agreement for a number 8 when we
have two good ones duking it out already.
And yes, Simmonds retaining the shirt made no sense to me
either. My view is he's changed his carrying approach this
season and he looks a bit scared of being held up / hit by a
dominant tackle, so he's aiming "down" when he carries and
always hits the deck as a result. So he carries a lot and makes
yards but it's never more than that - no breaks, no offloads -
and while he does make a lot of tackles and has excellent
workrate it's not the impact we were hoping for. Meanwhile,
Dombrandt was near the top of the table for turnovers won in the
6N despite playing mostly off the bench, runs great lines, has
great hands, is a proper lineout option, and is a heavy carrier
on top of that.
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Re: We’ve beaten the English champions and still get doubted
DIR By: Quinky
Date: April 14, 2022, 4:51 am
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--- Quote from: championes link ---
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> Please can we win just so this quote can be thrown back at
him…..
>
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I wouldn't be surprised if it gets mentioned in team talks...
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Re: We’ve beaten the English champions and still get doubted
DIR By: Quinston Churchill
Date: April 14, 2022, 5:11 am
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It might be fair to say that no-one is writing us off, but who
is saying we are ‘favourites’? No-one I’ve seen.
If there’s any doubt about Montpellier, it’s down to their awful
away record which (at least at the time of writing ;)) is
nothing to do with us.
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Re: We’ve beaten the English champions and still get doubted
DIR By: MadMax
Date: April 14, 2022, 8:33 am
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--- Quote from: championes link ---
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> Please don’t mention England, I was in a happy place….
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Scotland?
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