Quote: Captain Hook "I appreciate we are way off topic by now but I wonder if the strengthening of the prop position will make our 20 metre out attack more effective?'"
Well we all like to see length of the field tries, but let’s be honest, they don’t happen often, you could count them on one or two hands through SL in a season.
If we are often within 20 meters with tackles in the bag, I can assure you, we’ll be winning more games than constantly defending our own line, burning up energy with repeated tackling, while we will waiting for that line break that has the field chasing for 60 odd plus meters.
The modern game is, play most of the rugby in your opponent’s half, and it’s more than likely you’ll come out the winner.