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<blockquote data-quote="Big Ewis" data-source="post: 660532" data-attributes="member: 57076"><p>:lol: here we go again but here I couldn't hold myself: right, because England have been such a sight to behold on attack with their technique and creativity. Such a shame they might sacrifice it all, all that aesthetically orgasmic wonder.</p><p>By the way, really appreciating the coming to sense about mass right there all of a sudden. That bizarre, bizarre notion that tons of muscle in Rugby are somehow primordial (unless you're the All-Blacks).</p><p></p><p>Hopefully for England that Burgess fella translates into something worthy. His power could serve either at flanker or center as everybody's saying. I don't know that he'll make a good flanker as that requires experience; fetching in rucks, clean tackling, clearing out rucks...etc....which I don't think he has playing League, dunno...; whereas playing center seems a lot more adapted to his raw, present ability. He can run, tackle hard, and carries strong. Some of the most popular centers today don't pass very well or all that often; in fact Bastareaud seems to be religiously against passing as a holy principle, but is still an enormous weapon on attack (not to mention on defense); but their power and net weight stat alone are all that's needed. Let the other center pass, or not...I can see Burgess and Tuilagi together, if they can make <em>a few </em>passes, just a few, not asking them to be Conrad Smith/Fofana, that's well enough. Set the backline up so your gameplan doesn't rely on or requires lots of ball movement at midfield...these guys will create enough opportunities by themselves by MASSing over the opposing defense that it's totally worth it to sacrifice a little bit of passing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Big Ewis, post: 660532, member: 57076"] :lol: here we go again but here I couldn't hold myself: right, because England have been such a sight to behold on attack with their technique and creativity. Such a shame they might sacrifice it all, all that aesthetically orgasmic wonder. By the way, really appreciating the coming to sense about mass right there all of a sudden. That bizarre, bizarre notion that tons of muscle in Rugby are somehow primordial (unless you're the All-Blacks). Hopefully for England that Burgess fella translates into something worthy. His power could serve either at flanker or center as everybody's saying. I don't know that he'll make a good flanker as that requires experience; fetching in rucks, clean tackling, clearing out rucks...etc....which I don't think he has playing League, dunno...; whereas playing center seems a lot more adapted to his raw, present ability. He can run, tackle hard, and carries strong. Some of the most popular centers today don't pass very well or all that often; in fact Bastareaud seems to be religiously against passing as a holy principle, but is still an enormous weapon on attack (not to mention on defense); but their power and net weight stat alone are all that's needed. Let the other center pass, or not...I can see Burgess and Tuilagi together, if they can make [I]a few [/I]passes, just a few, not asking them to be Conrad Smith/Fofana, that's well enough. Set the backline up so your gameplan doesn't rely on or requires lots of ball movement at midfield...these guys will create enough opportunities by themselves by MASSing over the opposing defense that it's totally worth it to sacrifice a little bit of passing. [/QUOTE]
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