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Looks like the USA's new tactic is going to be 'pass it to Carlin'.
you know how flat racing horses get put down when the snap their little twiggy legs......
Thats good too watch but can you imagine what will happen to him if he meets someone like Tualangi (sp?)
He'll jog round him?
Thats good too watch but can you imagine what will happen to him if he meets someone like Tualangi (sp?)
True. But...
He'll jog round him?
...is probably the plan.
Anyway. The US have a track record *hoho* for putting in almost ran *hehe* olympic sprinters.
I give you Takudzwa Ngwenya, skinning some slowcoach call Bryan Habana, in '07 WC.
Fine in an open running game, how will he fare when it gets all heavy and physical with mud, cold and a wet ball. You can't build a team around one player.
He'd definitely struggle at Kingsholm on an october saturday afternoon. However give the bloke his dues, he has a step, a hand off and he can catch. Needs to work on his tackling though.
He'd definitely struggle at Kingsholm on an october saturday afternoon. However give the bloke his dues, he has a step, a hand off and he can catch. Needs to work on his tackling though.
Yep. 7s is a very different game, however.
I would expect him to stay a 7's specialist.
In the full game he wouldn't have so much space to run and opposition teams would relish putting in big hits on him. I think he might get broken.
In the full game he wouldn't have so much space to run and opposition teams would relish putting in big hits on him. I think he might get broken.
Not so sure. Shane did OK. There will always be a place for small, fast, elusive guys in the game and rightly so, sometimes they are the most exciting.
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I would expect him to stay a 7's specialist.In the full game he wouldn't have so much space to run and opposition teams would relish putting in big hits on him. I think he might get broken.
This, he would get absolutely monstered in a full 15s game.
Good plan by the US what with 7s being in the 2016 Olympics.He may get bored/broken by then of course.
thats impressive but remember the Welsh hurdler, Nigel Walker, although Wiki says he got 17 caps & 12 tries I remember the games as 1 tackle & he's injured.
He will stick to 7's (if he has any sense). Wrecker; I ran touch in a Magners game in which Shane played,he was built like a brick outhouse,if he had been normal size 😀 he would have been about 16 stone.
Been playing for 12 weeks and can already catch the ball better then Ashton!
Fair one duckman, but Isles is still heavier than Stringer (who at 9 is more likely to get hammered by big forwards than a winger).
If he can keep his pace (or most of it) and chuck on another stone of muscle, this lad could be pretty bloody handy.
He looks quick when there's lots of space to run into as do most wingers but think I'd rather have a winger like Jonah Lomu ,6ft 5in,19 stone 100m in sub 11 secs 😯
What's with all this kick and clap nonsense? 😉
Winger? Tick. Sidestep? Tick. Breaks tackles? Tick. Astonishingly quick? Hell yeah.
Wow, even as a 7s specialist that's impressive. that last try against SA was amazing.
So what [i]if[/i] he'd get tackled in 15s? He probably got tackled in the 7s (they don't hold back) anyway.
Lets see him do that on a cut up pitch in the middle of winter in a 15s game. He'd get murdered.
Ourmaninthenorth +1 even though he's a pie eater.it was a great try.Even though I think best bit is Thompkins getting a slap at the start.For sidesteps and pace look no futher than Rob Burrows. 😯
Not Rugby, but this wee girl seems to be a lot faster than the boys she is playing against!
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[b]sparkyrhino -[/b]For sidesteps and pace look no further than Rob Burrows.
Even though it pains me (given your username!), you've a point. I think it helps being so close to the ground!
Winger? Tick. Sidestep? Tick. Breaks tackles? Tick. Astonishingly quick? Hell yeah.
George North is bigger, more powerful and quicker.
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Burrow, surely?
Anyway, yeah we've got one of him in our under 10s rugby squad. He's about the size of a 6 year old, but sidesteps, ducks under tackles and is as fast as the biggest ones. Also tackles with absolutely no fear. Awesome lad. Hardly ever speaks! I should get a vid of him up sometime.
Americans playing rugby..!?
Is nothing sacred..?
No way is North quicker. Infinitely better yes, but quicker no. There's no way this USA guy is as quick as Tom Varndell though 8)
George North is bigger, more powerful and quicker.
His running through McFadden was awe inspiring. And then there was that offload as well....Class.
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turns out the buggers have been playing for quite a long time
That yank winger is seriously rapid and showed a bit of sense in finding a gap.
I seem to remember Ngwenya not doing too badly for biaritz so there's def hope for the new guy
I can think of 2 wingers at Gloucester who are faster than North, let alone any from the rest of the rugby world 8)
He seems very similar in build and pace to the Stormers / Western Province wing Tonderai Tsavanga(?) - he made Habana look like a carthorse, but any organised defence sorts him out.
If you get quick ball out of breakdown, then fine, but otherwise there is just not the space on the pitch in the professional era for one trick speed merchants - even Shane Williams and Jason Robinson had far more to their games than that.
HE. IS. A. SEVENS. PLAYER.
Get over it!
this thread needs a bit of billy whizz
George North is bigger, more powerful and quicker.
Don't forget a_a (and you CFH), that my union allegiances are Welsh all the way.
But Charnley is devastating too. Not as big as GN, sure, but hard as nails and puts in the big hits too.
Loving Billy Whizz up there^^^ 😀 (but you forgot the glory days for Wigan, England and GB in "the other code". Greatest English rugby player - damn, wish he was a Welshman!)
For me it was a shame Robinson played for england. He was wasted at full back, the game plan should have been built around him rather han only using him in emergencies. Like when in the shit v wakes at the world cup. It as a truely great run that set up the try for Greenwood.
How about a bit of TRUE legend....yeah "only" 10.8 sec 100 ms but 120kg of pure freight train! Think everyone else has a way to go before besting this collection (and its only part one of two!) guaranteed to make you smile....(especially if you're a kiwi trying to ease the pain of recent tickers events :oops:)
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Jonah who? 8)
Is he an NFL or college football reject?
No i haven't forgotten billy whizz's early days at wigan. I first saw him when i was ten years old on the terraces of central park as he and Gary Connolly eviscerated my beloved 'fax
I've always hated Wigan but Jason Robinson, Gary Connelly and Andy Farrell still ended up among my rugby heroes.
Robinson also happened to score my favourite try of all time in a certain match in 2003, not the best try of all time, but my favourite 🙂