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Message: [QUOTE="NSW stables, post: 3457961, member: 10150"] England play very flat, which is fine when the opposition doesn't have line speed, but when they do, you can't do much with the ball. England spent most of the competition spreading the ball wide with outside back scoring, but Samoa was cutting this off with their line speed. England got success when they started going straight forward (I.e. Williams challenging the line, herbie straightening up off his left foot and barrelling over etc). I thought the Samoan back 5 were good with the early hit ups. They basically followed the penrith core game plan; fast line speed, back five to do the hit up work (keeping the middle fresh for defence line speed), fullback to take the fifth hit up and get a quick play the ball for the half to kick off the front foot. Simple but effective. [/QUOTE]

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