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It was always going to be sloppy. A handful of those guys are seriously short on match fitness (Simmons, Douglas, Palu, McMahon to name a few) and others were playing out of position. We lose a lot of presence at the breakdown with no Hooper or Pocock at 7. One of the risks of playing a wide game is that it is easier to exploit mistakes and the USA were able to do that a couple of times. Our big mistake was that we didn't go forward enough before going wide. The Eagles defence fanned out a lot and I reckon easy metres could have been gained in close to the ruck which would also suck in players to make more out of wide play.