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<blockquote data-quote="Mikey12" data-source="post: 1019193" data-attributes="member: 84370"><p>So glad to see Ellis Jenkins back playing after 830 odd days out and 3 surgeries to repair his knee following a final minute autumn test match against South Africa. Wales has a lot of heavily injured players and personally I think it's something the game has to look at.</p><p>Any team today would wipe the floor with a pre professional side, they are so much bigger in physique and the collisions so much more ferocious that we need to consider how many games they play a year. Their bodies cannot take the attrition as bone density and additional ligaments haven't grown along with mass.</p><p></p><p>I think Graham Henry might be right when he calls tor an Under 85 kg side, I think to have a long career in rugby these guys need to consider size as a negative.</p><p></p><p>A back in my day was 12-13 st, I remember Scott Gibbs coming back from league a 14 st of muscle and people referring to how he could get over the gain line due to his size. Halaholo is 16 st, Jamie Roberts 17.4 these are big boys in the centre. Jonah Lomu was 18.8 and a freak of nature at 6'5" for a wing who could run 100m in 10.8 sec, he was the catalyst he created the change as teams realised they needed to get bigger to compete.</p><p>We are at a crossroads and need to consider what is good for the players the game and the spectators, the defences today are not penetrable so the ball is kicked long to try and cause an error. Rugby has become formula 1, stalemate is this what we want?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mikey12, post: 1019193, member: 84370"] So glad to see Ellis Jenkins back playing after 830 odd days out and 3 surgeries to repair his knee following a final minute autumn test match against South Africa. Wales has a lot of heavily injured players and personally I think it’s something the game has to look at. Any team today would wipe the floor with a pre professional side, they are so much bigger in physique and the collisions so much more ferocious that we need to consider how many games they play a year. Their bodies cannot take the attrition as bone density and additional ligaments haven’t grown along with mass. I think Graham Henry might be right when he calls tor an Under 85 kg side, I think to have a long career in rugby these guys need to consider size as a negative. A back in my day was 12-13 st, I remember Scott Gibbs coming back from league a 14 st of muscle and people referring to how he could get over the gain line due to his size. Halaholo is 16 st, Jamie Roberts 17.4 these are big boys in the centre. Jonah Lomu was 18.8 and a freak of nature at 6’5” for a wing who could run 100m in 10.8 sec, he was the catalyst he created the change as teams realised they needed to get bigger to compete. We are at a crossroads and need to consider what is good for the players the game and the spectators, the defences today are not penetrable so the ball is kicked long to try and cause an error. Rugby has become formula 1, stalemate is this what we want? [/QUOTE]
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