You are correct, Jones got sucked in, left out of position and didnt communicate to try and solve the problem

Meanwhile, Meli just kept on running. None of his business, obviously.

You've got to trust the guy on your inside, else you'll end up looking like Patrick Ah Van every time the ball comes wide.
If he had come in a man, Sneyd would have just passed it to the then unmarked winger. It is better to make them pass it an extra time, but the problem can't be laid at Meli's feet.

Sigh, that was never Meli's fault. Never in a million years.

And that, in a nutshell, is my issue with the Meli haters (not aimed at you BTW - and on that note some of the personal abuse you get on here is just daft).

They see things that aren't there. The agenda is so deeply ingrained - admittedly though some deeply disappointing and high profile errors - that he gets the blame for things that aren't even remotely his fault, and zero credit for everything he brings to the team (which is plenty).

He is our best winger by a distance and has been since Albert left in 2005; it really is that simple. And when he played centre, he was our best centre too!

Read my previous point plus the comments others have made since your reply. Meli has to take his man, the winger. Meli has to trust his inside man unless told otherwise - that is how teams/players should defend.

So let me get this right,so far in this thread Meli has been blamed for a shocker of a ball from Wello and for not tackling someone elses man. Seems the blinkers are well and truely on .

I am not ( and never will be thank god) your HON.

P.S. For someone who teaches the 2 X's table to 6 year old's I would be careful whose intelligence you question. The old saying "If you can, do, If you can't, teach" comes to mind.

Alright kids calm down, if you can't play nice, you won't play at all

Apologies for letting her get to me. I will now go back to completely ignoring her.

Dude, why get so angry? It's only a forum and it's only rugby, there's no need to be getting so personal.

Take it from one with experience - it's the only way I'dve been banned a long, long time ago if I'd kept on trying to bash any sense into her. The "ignore user" button is a godsend.

Normally I would ignore her,but when she accuses me of personal insults which I haven't given, and then proceeds to insult me ( Read her last post prior to mine ) I'm afraid I took the bait. If everybody would stop quoting her I would go back to using the Ignore user button. Unfortunately a lot of posters on here rise to the bait she lays down ( although I genuinely think she believes the drivel she posts ) and that option is of no use.

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