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Re: Fin Smith is the victim of England’s fly-half roulette
DIR By: Rugbycat
Date: November 20, 2025, 4:26 pm
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--- Quote from: T-Bone link ---
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> This time last year the pundits and casual fans were raving
about Marcus. Fin played against Japan and looked decent - not
that hard.
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> Then Healey suggested, as he likes to look clever, that Marcus
can't bring others into the game and fin is better at leading a
backline. The other pundits and casual pick this up and it
becomes gospel.
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> Come 6 nations, borthwick decides to start fin at 10. Marcus
goes to fullback and all of a sudden the accepted narrative is
that fin is the better 10 and Marcus had to focus on 15 or 23.
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> People are very fickle and quick to trot out the latest
accepted narrative
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I am fairly certain that the words clever and Healey are
mutually incompatible.
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Re: Fin Smith is the victim of England’s fly-half roulette
DIR By: Banstead Quin
Date: November 21, 2025, 3:22 am
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I agree with T-bone, there was a stark increase in "Marcus can
play 15" after Healey opened his chasaming (not a word) gob and
loads piled on. We know him better as we see more of him and I
don't remember the Stoop bars alive with talk of Marcus as a 15.
He's now said he can see Fin at 12, so wait for that to permeate
around and that'll be the next thing
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Re: Fin Smith is the victim of England’s fly-half roulette
DIR By: FrostAndFire
Date: November 22, 2025, 4:53 am
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I'm surprised that more people haven't cottoned on to the fact
that Healey is reliably wrong about everything and you should
believe the opposite to what he says at all times.
#Post#: 145010--------------------------------------------------
Re: Fin Smith is the victim of England’s fly-half roulette
DIR By: Fursty
Date: November 22, 2025, 6:22 am
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The Marcus can’t bring others into the game is also complete
tosh - one of his key strengths is the ability to fix and hold a
defence before passing onto the players outside.
Also against New Zealand he brought others into the game simply
be being there and attracting the attention of the defence - up
until that point NZ where quite comfortable in marshalling Ford
knowing full well he was the only play maker.
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Re: Fin Smith is the victim of England’s fly-half roulette
DIR By: poorfour
Date: November 22, 2025, 7:46 am
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To be fair, at international level Marcus hasn’t been as good at
bringing others into the game as we know he can be, but that’s
arguably more of a coaching and selection issue. You’d expect a
10 to be able to bring his club teammates into a game, but it’s
a bit harder if you’re used to Marchant and Murley but they give
you Slade and Malins
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