Matt Dawson column: 'Freddie Steward should be celebrated like Maro Itoje was'
There ought to be as numerous section inches expounded on Freddie Steward after his presentation on Saturday as there were expounded on Maro Itoje when he began playing for England.
The full-back was granted man of the match in the 32-15 success against Australia but again showed he overflows top notch rugby.
Nothing is constrained with Steward. He gets in such an extraordinary position, he circulates and hits lines. He is the finished full-back.
On the off chance that the 20-year-old were playing for New Zealand, everybody would be going insane as they did with Beauden Barrett. He has just played multiple times for England however he truly has got it.
I can't see anyone thumping him off the roost for quite a while as long as he keeps himself fit.
Steward is unshakable, he is solid, he is daring, he is skilful and he peruses the game eminently. He is an outright star really taking shape and could be an England full-back for quite a long time.
'I figured England would play a speedier game'
Obviously, fly-half Marcus Smith played well as well. He got crushed two or multiple times yet he actually took it to the line.
Smith was all the while giving those truly extreme passes and strategically kicked really well. After a first game up in a top-level Test like that, he will have been applauded by lead trainer Eddie Jones, who will think they have blooded him accurately.
It is a critical success for England, a few games into the harvest time crusade.
Australia got closed out - no attempts scored. Britain had the greater part of the belonging and region. It was a very decent day at the workplace.
I just idea we would be seeing a more pacey, broken approach that would suit England and run Australia around.
Their approach clearly worked, yet I thought England planned to play a much speedier game.
I figured they would have considerably more force with speedy toss ins and tap punishments. It had somewhat of a vibe of how England used to play, with bunches of box-kicks and cross-field kicks.
It was a down to earth way of beating Australia and it worked. They have beaten Australia multiple times on the twist and that is a gigantic record to have.
'Britain should observe something South Africa are not anticipating'
Given the triumphant edge against Australia, it will be hard to make changes to that England group for next Saturday's Test against South Africa, yet maybe Owen Farrell fell off harmed, so we don't have the foggiest idea what will occur with him.
My anxiety is that if England play as they did against Australia, they will cause problems for themselves against the Springboks.
In case you were South Africa, you would see England's success against the Wallabies and think you knew how they planned to play.
The technique they were utilizing with Farrell and Manu Tuilagi, placing Smith in behind and allowing him to appropriate to the external backs, was compelling.
It gave Smith a smidgen more space with his imagination and that strategy was totally right on target.
However, how can it work one week from now when South Africa have all the examination from this end of the week and will safeguard in an unexpected way?
Britain will need this chance to beat South Africa subsequent to losing to them in the 2019 World Cup last - there is a ton of scar tissue.
They won't have the predominance front and center and I can't see South Africa committing however many errors as Australia. Britain must piece for everything.
So I might want England to think of something that the Springboks are not expecting - like South Africa did to them in the World Cup last.
Britain went into that last reasoning South Africa were simply going to dismiss the cowhide from the ball like they had for the entire competition.
Then, at that point, out of nowhere, Faf de Klerk was running round the short side with Willie le Roux. Handre Pollard was pulling the shots and England had not seen any of it.
The Springboks will realize they need to have their kick-pursue spot on. They can't test Steward and should get it in behind the wingers.
South Africa will go hard direct and will attempt to drive their direction through, so England must think of something.
They should toss in plans to split it up -, for example, hitting the short sides as they did in their initial success against Tonga, or fast line-outs.
Doing the things that get South Africa on the back foot will be critical.
