[nelsonone]

Now i know that I have been less than complimentary about Charlie Hodgson at no 10 for England on the board recently however I must give credit where its due and say that Charlie had a great game on the weekend........

I think that some of this was due to having that little Harry Ellis fella at half back........he gave Charlie good, fast, accurate ball which gave him more time/space and allowed him more freedom/better options to create chances and i thought that Charlie used this balll very, very well...........kicking,passing.setting up tries and chances and even bagging one for himself

Even though the opppostion in Samoa was not the quality of ABs or a top tier 6 Nations teams I thought that if I were Dawson I would be shirting my pants as that combination looked a heck of a lot better than with him in the team

I think that Dawson may be suffering from the Gregan/Marshall disease of trying to play as an extra forward and doing too much with the ball rather than giving his no 10 time and space with crisp ball to create the options.....???

Anyway England looked good and Charlie and Harry (nice half backs try too little fella) share my best player award