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[2013 ITM Cup] Premiership Final: Canterbury v Wellington
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<blockquote data-quote="TRF Mr Fish" data-source="post: 601308" data-attributes="member: 20892"><p>Surely SC's not talking about SBW, given that SBW had already played a lot of rugby at a similar level in France. Likewise Retallick had played a whole season for the Chiefs, starting almost every match, and playing almost 80 minutes every week. I'd imagine whilst he probably had fewer games at the level before being selected, he had certainly clocked up more game time than Whitelock has. Plus, of course, we were (/are) short of locks, whereas that's hardly the case in the loose forwards...</p><p></p><p>I'd just like to add that of course the selectors are likely to have better rugby brains than us plebeians, but for the life of me I don't know what it is that Whitelock does which is so endearing to the selectors. If they could come out and give us something to go on, other than he can play flanker and numer 8 equally well (/poorly), it would be nice.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TRF Mr Fish, post: 601308, member: 20892"] Surely SC's not talking about SBW, given that SBW had already played a lot of rugby at a similar level in France. Likewise Retallick had played a whole season for the Chiefs, starting almost every match, and playing almost 80 minutes every week. I'd imagine whilst he probably had fewer games at the level before being selected, he had certainly clocked up more game time than Whitelock has. Plus, of course, we were (/are) short of locks, whereas that's hardly the case in the loose forwards... I'd just like to add that of course the selectors are likely to have better rugby brains than us plebeians, but for the life of me I don't know what it is that Whitelock does which is so endearing to the selectors. If they could come out and give us something to go on, other than he can play flanker and numer 8 equally well (/poorly), it would be nice. [/QUOTE]
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