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Re: Our squad for next season
DIR By: Quinten Poulsen
Date: March 17, 2020, 10:00 am
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> at times they used to play him on the wing
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I think that was because they wouldn't have to listen to him
quite as much.
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Re: Our squad for next season
DIR By: poorfour
Date: March 17, 2020, 11:50 am
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> Very good point. I hope he doesn't leave though.
>
> On a similar note, or maybe not so similar, I was thinking
back to when Lawrence Dallaglio started at Wasps. He was very
quick for a back row, and at times they used to play him on the
wing. I think it was partly to surprise the opposition, but also
to use his skills, somewhere. Of course wingers were generally a
lot smaller then...
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I remember when we did that with Tom Guest, who would be a
decent size for a winger even now.
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Re: Our squad for next season
DIR By: TomBuckQuin
Date: March 17, 2020, 1:24 pm
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Tom Guest was a player I was very sad to see go in almost
exactly the same way I'll be sad to see Semi go.
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Re: Our squad for next season
DIR By: poorfour
Date: March 17, 2020, 1:40 pm
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> Tom Guest was a player I was very sad to see go in almost
exactly the same way I'll be sad to see Semi go.
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True, but he needed more first team game time, and with Minty
trucking endlessly on we couldn't give it to him.
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Re: Our squad for next season
DIR By: Quinston Churchill
Date: March 17, 2020, 3:04 pm
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> Also, I'm thinking that he seems to have been a bit injury
prone. Like Sailli, he's a quality player - but pragmatically,
we aren't really getting great value for them.
>
> On a random, left-field point... I really liked seeing Semi
play at centre! I know it was an emergency situation, but could
he play a whole game there and do a good enough job?
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Tapuai played 15 Premiership games for us last season. More or
less the same he was averaging in at Bath. Generally he’s been
first choice when fit and playing nearly 70% of games is not a
bad return. It’s only really this season where he’s been injury
prone.
Personally I’d keep him, but Lasike’s emergence as a genuine
option and subsequent contract extension probably means he’ll be
off.
Scrum Half and Fullback are our weakest positions IMO.
Landajo has been rubbish and Saunders’ condition means he’s
unlikely to ever be able to cement a place as second choice (I
think he can only play a limited number of games). Not many good
9s about TBH.
As for Fullback. Brown”s injury really exposed us. I like Morris
but he’s injury prone and isn’t good enough to be a first choice
IMO. The less said about Ross Chisholm at 15, the better. Again,
not too many obvious targets, but I’d have loved to see us go
for Malins. Unfortunately, that ship has sailed.
I would quite like to see is try Lang at 15. He’s probably not
likely to be first choice at 10, 12 or 13, but I think he has
the ability and the skill set to be a very good option at 15 and
given time I think he could be Browny’s successor.
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Re: Our squad for next season
DIR By: honkytonk
Date: March 17, 2020, 3:39 pm
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I think Lang and Herron would be good choices if we wanted to
try something new (at FB)
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Re: Our squad for next season
DIR By: Quinky
Date: March 18, 2020, 4:48 am
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> Tapuai played 15 Premiership games for us last season. More or
less the same he was averaging in at Bath. Generally he’s been
first choice when fit and playing nearly 70% of games is not a
bad return. It’s only really this season where he’s been injury
prone.
>
> Personally I’d keep him, but Lasike’s emergence as a genuine
option and subsequent contract extension probably means he’ll be
off.
>
> Scrum Half and Fullback are our weakest positions IMO.
>
> Landajo has been rubbish and Saunders’ condition means he’s
unlikely to ever be able to cement a place as second choice (I
think he can only play a limited number of games). Not many good
9s about TBH.
>
> As for Fullback. Brown”s injury really exposed us. I like
Morris but he’s injury prone and isn’t good enough to be a first
choice IMO. The less said about Ross Chisholm at 15, the better.
Again, not too many obvious targets, but I’d have loved to see
us go for Malins. Unfortunately, that ship has sailed.
>
> I would quite like to see is try Lang at 15. He’s probably not
likely to be first choice at 10, 12 or 13, but I think he has
the ability and the skill set to be a very good option at 15 and
given time I think he could be Browny’s successor.
>
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I take it back about Tapuai. I didn't realise he'd played so
much last season. But as you say, we've got increasing options
at centre, and I daresay they are a lot cheaper than Taps.
Scrum half and full back are a quandary. In part, we've been
spoiled by having arguably the two best English players in those
positions for the best part of a decade. Both seem
irreplaceable... but we have to look ahead. I'd still like to
see Ruan Combribnck join us! Can't we start waving the cheque
book at him?
Scrum half is a tricky one - Faf would have been prefect for us.
Bu maybe we need to look at a complete change in the type of
player we're looking for? DC is a unique player, so are we
trying too hard to find someone similar?
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Re: Our squad for next season
DIR By: Quinky
Date: March 18, 2020, 4:49 am
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> Tom Guest was a player I was very sad to see go in almost
exactly the same way I'll be sad to see Semi go.
>
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Always thought Tom was underrated. A fantastic athlete for his
size and a superb player. I'm not at all biased either, even
though we played at for the same club... :)
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Re: Our squad for next season
DIR By: Quinston Churchill
Date: March 18, 2020, 5:08 am
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Reinach would be my dream choice at 9, but obviously he’s off to
Montpellier and it’s unlikely he would have left Saints for us.
I also really like John Cooney but he wouldn’t leave Ulster
while he’s in the mix for Ireland.
Sonatane Takulua would have been another good signing with
experience of the Premiership, but he’s off to Toulon.
The low value of the Rand and relaxed selection policies mean
that SA is the best hunting ground. Herschel Jantjies would be a
great signing for us, or as a wildcard, I quite liked the look
of Embrose Papier when he was on loan at Sale earlier in the
season. At 22, he’d be an ideal guy to develop behind Care.
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Re: Our squad for next season
DIR By: deadlyfrom5yardsout
Date: March 18, 2020, 5:34 am
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> Always thought Tom was underrated. A fantastic athlete for his
size and a superb player. I'm not at all biased either, even
though we played at for the same club... :)
>
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Oh I didn't know Tom Guest liked Bingo too?
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