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Jonny Wilkinson is wasting his talent while England are on a learning curve | Richard Williams

Source: guardian.co.uk Sport

Nov 08, 2009

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Twelve months on, Martin Johnson has yet to display the flexibility needed to devise a winning England game plan

The sight of Matt Banahan trundling back to retrieve yet another ball kicked high over his head, a big white container ship lost in a sea of green and gold torpedo boats, was perhaps the cruellest glimpse of England's haplessness as the Wallabies gradually took control of Saturday's opening autumn international. If Banahan, a 6ft 7in, 17st wing, is England's answer, what on earth was the question?

Into the mind's eye slid memories of Jason Robinson in similar circumstances, turning and setting off to inflict damage through the application of speed, technique and sheer wit. Those were the qualities England so conspicuously lacked in the final quarter on Saturday, when they secured the possession and field position that should have allowed them to attack Australia's lead but came up with nothing to challenge an opposition who outscored them, in the day's only meaningful statistic, by two tries to none.

During his year in charge of the team, Martin Johns

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