A tweak to the Danny Cipriani's game is all he needs to eradicate those costly charge-downs according to Stuart Barnes, writing in the Sunday Times
"Amid all the advice, the technical verbiage, the drop punt against the screw-kick, the eternity of time between the ball leaving the hand and making contact with the boot; amid all the headline-generating ideas to tamper with technique mid-season and watch the one-step snap of the American football kickers, nobody seems to have identified the biggest problem of all for the fly-half. He is standing in the wrong place.
"The so-called charge sheet levelled at Cipriani is exactly the sort expected in relation to a left-footed kicker. The pair of charge-downs against Harlequins last Sunday and the seven-point slip-ups in the autumn for England against the Pacific Islanders and South Africa all happened when the fly-half moved right to left and - Shaun Edwards is absolutely right in this - took too long to get rid of the ball."
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