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By Rugby Onslaught

This video of Owen Farrell practising tackling in training is worrying England fans

You become what you practice, and it seems Owen Farrell is practicing chest-high, red card tackling in training.

Despite being 30, proper tackling technique has managed to elude Farrell his entire adult life. This was once against demonstrated with Farrell practicing chest-high, ball-and-all tackling in training.

This technique would have been fine a few years ago, but how likely is this to lead to a yellow or red card in live play? Highly, we'd say, even if Farrell is wearing the invisibility cloak he stole from the All Blacks during the semi-final of the 2019 Rugby World Cup.

Even All Black cloaking technology has its limits Owen.

What you also notice is that despite hitting a tackle bag, a clearly fearful Farrell crosses himself before doing it. Is he that afraid of a tackle bag? Even wee Georgie Ford - who stopped growing at 13 - isn't afraid of a tackle bag.

You can expect Farrell to be sent off on the weekend. You heard it here first.

Fans are worried: