Argentina Tour Summer 2013

Yarde should be rightly cross.

Very, but after he wasn't going to make the 15, hard to put him on the bench. Not as versatile as others

If they want versatility pick May

and i'm not that cross Yarde isn't on the bench, i'm cross he (a) isn't starting and (b) the very odd reason given

Odd reason given by the daily fail, lineups they tend to nail, not so sure I trust them on reasonings.

Lawes and Launch are not lineout callers (though both are currently learning apparently). Attwood is, and I think Wood can do the job.

I guess someone is going to have to do the job, because bar injury we know Launch can go a full 80, and from the little I've seen, Attwood finds it a lot tougher.

I do wonder if the Strettle pick is something of a do or die pick. Strettle gets 1, Yarde gets 1, and if Strettle doesn't really turn up, there goes his spot in the EPS. At the moment Yarde has got to be looking favourite, and that's the only decent reason I can think of giving Strettle a run out over Yarde, the experience thing just doesn't really fit that well given the tour, the squad and the individual performances.

Reminds me a little of Jack Rowell. His actual selections often seeming to have little to do with stated aims.

M Bustos Moyano (Montpellier)
M Orlando (Huirapuca)
G Tiesi (unattached)
F Contepomi (Stade Francais)
M Montero (Club Pucara)
B Urdapilleta (Oyonnax)
M Landajo (CASI)
P Henn (Brive)
M Garcia Veiga (Buenos Aires C & CR)
M Bustos (Montpellier)
E Lozada, (Agen)
M Galarza (University of La Plata)
J Farias Cabello (unattached)
B Macome (Tucuman)
T Leonardi (Southern Kings)

M Guidone (La Plata)
G Roan (Cavalieri Prato)
F Gomez Kodela (Biarritz)
T Vallejos Cinalli (unattached)
T De la Vega (CUBA)
N Vergallo (Southern Kings)
G Ascarate (Carcassonne)
B Agulla (unattached)


So better than CONSUR, but shouldn't really be pushing England too much.

Lancaster after the match:

"We have got one or two changes we will make because we want to look at some players but we have only got a small squad here so there won't be too many," he told reporters after the match in Salta.

Strettle gone, I suspect he wants to give May and Yarde a go, so maybe a change on the bench too?

Ideally have our tight 5 carry perhaps 5 times more between them in the match, and Kvesic those carries less and work on support/link play.

The range of passing from 8-12 was very non-English, and very welcome.

Strettle should just be dropped, not even bench duty, and if he's fit then Foden over Brown.

Attwood, just carry on doing the same, brilliant stuff. Just why did we have to wait this long to do the obvious