Owen Farrell’s failure to adapt leaves England with complicated questions
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Owen Farrell’s failure to adapt leaves England with complicated questions

The Independent  

Sign up to our free sport newsletter for all the latest news on everything from cycling to boxing Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Buried deep in the written judgment of Farrell’s most recent trip in front of a disciplinary panel was a line that stated that the fly half “is not a repeat offender whose status warrants an increase in sanction”, citing the relatively infrequent recurrence interval, with a 2016 ban entirely disregarded and a 2020 sanction considered relatively distant, too. open image in gallery Farrell’s yellow card from referee Nika Amashukeli was later upgraded to red A five-match ban would keep Farrell out of England’s games against Argentina, Japan and Chile. In 2015, Stuart Lancaster elected to omit Dylan Hartley from his squad, with a four-match ban for headbutting Jamie George encompassing England’s World Cup opener against Fiji. It has been emphasised repeatedly to England’s players that they will have to adapt over these coming weeks; Borthwick’s biggest problem might be Farrell’s failure to do so.

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