Quote ="Saddened!"What I don't get is why, if Italy weren't putting anyone into the ruck, could England not just pick the ball up from the ruck and push forward, they would make metres very easily wouldn't they?'"
But England do not have players with the intelligence of say Roby, Cameron Smith, Burrows etc who would have read that and darted through and created chaos. Union players are robotic and limited in creative thinking especially in the areas of distribution in ruck or maul.
Think the England players got confused and panicked for a bit.