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Flood reflects on second Test defeat to South Africa
Toby Flood talks to RFU.com's Steve Jones after a second Test defeat to the Springboks in Johannesburg.
Pressure on Flood to boost England’s creativity
By Harry Hawkins
England will field yet another new centre partnership of Manu Tuilagi and Jonathan Joseph this Saturday, in one of the boldest selections of Lancaster’s tenure. Many column inches will be devoted to the youth (both are 21) and inexperience of the centre pairing, but it is the change at fly half-which will more profoundly affect Saturday’s match.
The centres are certainly interesting selections and the decision to drop Owen Farrell – to whom Lancaster owes much from earlier in the year – would surely not have been taken lightly. The choice to select Tuilagi and Joseph reflects a desire to play the game in certain way; Farrell is a competent distributor and defender but offers little running threat in comparison to the power of Tuilagi and the elusive running of Joseph.
England will field yet another new centre partnership of Manu Tuilagi and Jonathan Joseph this Saturday, in one of the boldest selections of Lancaster’s tenure. Many column inches will be devoted to the youth (both are 21) and inexperience of the centre pairing, but it is the change at fly half-which will more profoundly affect Saturday’s match.The centres are certainly interesting selections and the decision to drop Owen Farrell – to whom Lancaster owes much from earlier in the year – would surely not have been taken lightly. The choice to select Tuilagi and Joseph reflects a desire to play the game in certain way; Farrell is a competent distributor and defender but offers little running threat in comparison to the power of Tuilagi and the elusive running of Joseph.