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Jiffy: Wales's Main Problem
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2024 12:45 pm
by UKHamlet
We're not big and hard enough. Well duh.
"the problem Wales have got is that I don't see the big physical forwards coming through. We need players who are big and abrasive but we just haven't got enough of them"
I agree with him. We lack the kind of solidity that Ireland and England seem to have a bottomless well of. The question is, how do we get mobile mountains to play for Wales?
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/rug ... 8c3f26dd74
Re: Jiffy: Wales's Main Problem
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2024 2:18 pm
by Sandydragon
UKHamlet wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 12:45 pm
We're not big and hard enough. Well duh.
"the problem Wales have got is that I don't see the big physical forwards coming through. We need players who are big and abrasive but we just haven't got enough of them"
I agree with him. We lack the kind of solidity that Ireland and England seem to have a bottomless well of. The question is, how do we get mobile mountains to play for Wales?
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/rug ... 8c3f26dd74
Its been a problem for a long while, we rarely have players who can run at the opposition and significantly win the collisions. Either we need to adapt our game plan (thinking Japan here but their skill set has been better than ours) or we need some other way of creating momentum. The alternative is to offer a bunch of university scholarships to Fijians and hope some of them remain and play for us, but I'm not seriously advocating that level of poaching.
Re: Jiffy: Wales's Main Problem
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2024 10:20 am
by Numbers
Sandydragon wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 2:18 pm
UKHamlet wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 12:45 pm
We're not big and hard enough. Well duh.
"the problem Wales have got is that I don't see the big physical forwards coming through. We need players who are big and abrasive but we just haven't got enough of them"
I agree with him. We lack the kind of solidity that Ireland and England seem to have a bottomless well of. The question is, how do we get mobile mountains to play for Wales?
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/rug ... 8c3f26dd74
Its been a problem for a long while, we rarely have players who can run at the opposition and significantly win the collisions. Either we need to adapt our game plan (thinking Japan here but their skill set has been better than ours) or we need some other way of creating momentum.
The alternative is to offer a bunch of university scholarships to Fijians and hope some of them remain and play for us, but I'm not seriously advocating that level of poaching.
The French recruitment model
