Quote: Juan Cornetto ""...able to do most of what they did..... as well" Why can't you quote accurately?
Inside Centre play includes tackling with a strong physical presence, putting your side on the front foot by crossing the gain line often in heavy traffic, running dummy running lines to fix defenders, being strong in the breakdown area, being able to offload in tight situations, backing up with good angled runs and having a strong presence. These are the basics and of course there are other skills like kicking. But as I said Burgess in his limited international game time so far has shown that he has this basic and important skill set and his mistakes have been minimal and not crucial. He has not been outplayed and has made a game changing impact when he came on as a sub and in fact has been better than the 'experience and ready' Barritt who is England's first choice inside centre.
So for you and others to pretend that his selection is in anyway a reason for the loss against Wales or was wrong is arrant nonsense and one can only presume in the absence of facts to disprove my points you have an agenda against Burgess.'"
I haven't said his selection was responsible for the loss against Wales, why do you make things up?
You also say that SB is strong at the breakdown, that shows that you are making it up as you go along, he was hopeless at the breakdown as well as kicking, which according to you are two of the basics. I also notice that you didn't mention his paucity of any positional sense of where he was supposed to stand, especially at lineouts, which should be a pre-requisite for any international centre. You never did answer my question asking if Mike Ford is 'anti-league' because he agrees with BOD and D'arcy that SB is not even a centre at club-level because he moved him to flanker and won't play him at centre again. I ask you again: is Mike Ford anti-league for thinking SB isn't a centre? You want there to be an agenda against Burgess because you want RL to be that important, but unfortunately for you it isn't.
