Sometimes you just get a mismatch between front rowers. Cole has never been anything more than a competent scrummager, even in his prime, and he just got dismantled by the Beast. Likewise Mako has never been an excellent scrummager. Put a front row that is just competent versus a very powerful and experienced bokke pack and that's what happens.
Marler is our best scrummaging prop, made a huge difference when he came on. Sinckler isn't as gnarled and experienced as some but he has the power to stand up to Beast...when he went off and our scrum fell apart it rattled some of our players and they never recovered.
Daly isn't a fullback, at least not against teams that are going to attack him with high balls and an aggressive chase. Against the boks we needed a rock like Brown claiming those bombs. I think we need to focus on Watson at 15, he has all the attributes for it. May and Nowell on the wings. Ibitoye is rapidly improving for us at quins and could be pushing for a spot soon. Youngs has been utter gash the whole tournament so hopefully he will get the axe first up. Heinz, Robson, Spencer are all better options. The pack is pretty solid, although some of old guard like Cole will be retired.
Still, a good tournament for us. We need to sort out the big game mentality though, get more animals that thrive on the big games like Itoje, Farrell, Underhill, Curry. Lose the flakes like Daly.