{"id":287880,"date":"2023-09-17T01:49:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T01:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/?p=287880"},"modified":"2023-09-17T01:49:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T01:49:23","slug":"mike-brown-owen-farrell-doesnt-have-a-divine-right-to-be-in-the-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/rugby-union\/mike-brown-owen-farrell-doesnt-have-a-divine-right-to-be-in-the-team\/","title":{"rendered":"MIKE BROWN: Owen Farrell doesn&apos;t have a divine right to be in the team"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>MIKE BROWN: Just because Owen Farrell is captain he doesn&#8217;t have a divine right to be in the team when he returns from his ban; George Ford should be rewarded for consistency<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Owen Farrell doesn&#8217;t have a divine right to be in the England team\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>George Ford has earned his place and should be rewarded for consistency\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We were having a good laugh with my Leicester team-mate Handre Pollard after our match against Sale on Friday night. It looks like he\u2019ll go from warming the bench in the Premiership Cup to playing for the Springboks at the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The boys were asking him if he\u2019s got his flight booked to France, and whether he\u2019s been practising his lineout throwing for when they call him up as an injury replacement for Malcolm Marx. We didn\u2019t get much reaction out of him!<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s been out with injury for a while but he came through 30 minutes in the second half and has all the experience he needs to slot straight back into the South Africa set-up. Manie Libbok is a brilliant X-factor No 10 for them but they\u2019ll need a dead-eye goalkicker come the knockout stages.<\/p>\n<p>I think he\u2019ll probably go on to the bench for them because it\u2019s bad for morale to drop players from a winning team \u2014 and the same applies to England when Owen Farrell returns from his ban.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve got to reward players. If England go well against Japan on Sunday you have to reward them for consistency. That\u2019s how you get confidence and momentum. George Ford has earned it. Just because Farrell is captain doesn\u2019t give him a divine right to be in the team.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/16\/21\/75513053-0-image-a-26_1694896266522.jpg\" height=\"393\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Owen Farrell doesn&#8217;t have a divine right to be in the England team just because he&#8217;s captain<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/16\/21\/75513167-0-image-a-40_1694896465837.jpg\" height=\"450\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>George Ford has earned his place in the side and has thrived in the quarterback role<\/p>\n<p>Ford\u2019s thrived in the quarterback role. He\u2019s comfortable being the main man and doesn\u2019t need someone telling him what to do. Farrell\u2019s a big personality. He wants to do things a certain way but Ford is capable of doing it on his own.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the best games I played in for England were when it was just Ford in the team. He has a great knack of bringing defenders on to him, pulling them out the line and putting people into gaps.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/16\/21\/75513363-0-image-a-41_1694896816502.jpg\" height=\"512\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The absence of Farrell has allowed Ford to thrive with regards to being the main man<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/rugbyunion\/article-12526885\/MIKE-BROWN-Just-Owen-Farrell-captain-doesnt-divine-right-team-returns-ban-George-Ford-rewarded-consistency.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIKE BROWN: Just because Owen Farrell is captain he doesn&#8217;t have a divine right to be in the team when<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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