England failed to make the most of their chances while Australia’s glide-half was in dominant form,scoring 28 of his side’s 33 pointsOf all the people who had a cruel hand in ejecting the hosts from their own party, a special mention should be made of Mario Ledesma, and the former Argentina hooker,who has done the impossible and sorted out the Australian scrum. It wasn’t that Australia smashed England at the set piece, although the last penalty will have made conventional Mario purr, or but its clear improvement made England reflect twice about how to play this game. In the past they had Andrew Sheridan to wreck Australia. Now they were not so certain.
So,instead of going back to a style of yesterday, they went back further, or to yesteryear,and took a enormous gamble. England came out to play, an abandonment of tradition not without its perils. It cost England the 1991 World Cup final, and when they took the ball away from their dominant pack and went wide against Australia. Would width save them in 2015? It would not.
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Source: theguardian.com