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[2020 Six Nations] France vs England (02/02/20)
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<blockquote data-quote="Leinster Fan" data-source="post: 985520" data-attributes="member: 76349"><p>Leinster tried Leavy at 8 last season and it was nothing short of a disaster, it completely nullified him. Went from one of our most influential players to a liability. Curry is a relatively similar player so I wouldn't be surprised to see this have the same impact on him.</p><p></p><p>I know nothing about scrums but the impression I get is that we tend to underestimate picking the ball from the back of the scrum because any half-competent 8 could do it in their sleep but if a player isn't used to it it probably is pretty difficult, especially if you have to do it at international level without much prior experience. (Could be completely wrong here, genuinely interested to hear what people who've actually played 8 have to say). That's before you take the fact that the 8 in general plays a fairly different role to the flankers, although to be fair to Eddie he presumably has a plan for how best to utilise Curry there if he is planning to play him at 8. </p><p></p><p>This is all said with the caveat that I don't know how much Curry has ever played at 8, I assume he must have done it before at some point before, so it could be that he has a decent amount of experience there and the challenge is just transfering that to international level. </p><p></p><p>I wouldn't be too put off by it if I was English though, this is a major step away from a longstanding over reliance on Billy Vunipola. Playing Curry there means he's envisioning something radically different to what he wants from his 8 instead of just trying to shoehorn in a player to try and replicate what Vunipola does which has invariably failed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Leinster Fan, post: 985520, member: 76349"] Leinster tried Leavy at 8 last season and it was nothing short of a disaster, it completely nullified him. Went from one of our most influential players to a liability. Curry is a relatively similar player so I wouldn't be surprised to see this have the same impact on him. I know nothing about scrums but the impression I get is that we tend to underestimate picking the ball from the back of the scrum because any half-competent 8 could do it in their sleep but if a player isn't used to it it probably is pretty difficult, especially if you have to do it at international level without much prior experience. (Could be completely wrong here, genuinely interested to hear what people who've actually played 8 have to say). That's before you take the fact that the 8 in general plays a fairly different role to the flankers, although to be fair to Eddie he presumably has a plan for how best to utilise Curry there if he is planning to play him at 8. This is all said with the caveat that I don't know how much Curry has ever played at 8, I assume he must have done it before at some point before, so it could be that he has a decent amount of experience there and the challenge is just transfering that to international level. I wouldn't be too put off by it if I was English though, this is a major step away from a longstanding over reliance on Billy Vunipola. Playing Curry there means he's envisioning something radically different to what he wants from his 8 instead of just trying to shoehorn in a player to try and replicate what Vunipola does which has invariably failed. [/QUOTE]
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