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Autumn Internationals

Another failure to use the bench properly from England

Another failure

By Paul Rees

It was Groundhog Day for England as they slumped to a fourth successive narrow defeat.
A difference this time was that they were back at Twickenham, sorry the Allianz Stadium, but otherwise it was the same old, a tale of missed opportunities and heartbreak at the end.
A feature of the two-Test series in New Zealand in the summer was the greater impact made by New Zealand’s bench and it was the same yesterday.
Ofa Tu’ungafasi and Pasilio Tosi not just shored up a struggling scrum but won penalties, Patrick Tuipulotu gave them badly needed momentum when he came on early in the s...

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