Cipriani on five-man shortlist for RPA award

I disagree, Jordie can neither offload in a tackle, nor hit like those two. Even Jim and Tupaea wouldn’t be close. He just offers those other skills sets as his point of difference, and I really like his chase/aerial game mostly myself. It’s good his refined these skills a bit more, he seems really conscious about improving at the moment and think he’s making good progress as a result. This is no doubt helped but Razor allowing/giving him opportunity to play a little more. When he first hit the scene he was dream for the unorthodox and it seems to me theyve always been trying to curb that in his game, so it good he’s allowed to open up a bit.

He’s in a weird spot at the moment where he won’t run it back with gusto and flair like he used to, and instead awkwardly tries to retain the ball at all costs. This actually makes him even more vulnerable than before and is no doubt a symptom of how the coaches have tried to change him.

Agreed, especially against the ABs, you can play into there hands sometimes. Much like with England’s even tighter games last year though, in reality the games weren’t that close I don’t believe. 29 to 8 linebreaks for the series for instance.

Yes thank you and the fellow French commentators for engaging in the series on the site, made it so much more interesting, and must get extremely monotonous when the topic returns to same one all the time. Kudos

Doesn't need to listen to sexton 🤣🤣

Waa waa they can’t have it if I cant!