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<blockquote data-quote="Big Ewis" data-source="post: 673942" data-attributes="member: 57076"><p>I'm a fan of his. A very peaceful soul, and a true gentle giant. I've heard many say he's a monster, strength wise, and always accomplished the greatest feats in the gym, bench press etc...Because he's so big physically, he always had that ambiguity in the scrum: for a very tall, very large loosehead to get good position at scrumtime, by the time he'd straighten his back and get that push ready he'd be backpedaling already against the more compact Tightheads, or he'd just go to ground because too voluminous and long physically. But he was a very good scrummager and I've seen him get the best of his opposing Tightheads often.</p><p></p><p>He got injured at the start of last season for Toulon, after which Chiocci became the no.1 LH for the club. Haven't seen him play since, or seen him sidelined or anything at all. I've seen him still listed in the Toulon roster these days, so I really don't know what they're doing...</p><p>Last article about him in the French online media is August 2014, stating he'll have to retire given the last lab tests were 'negative'. So his contract with Toulon is cancelled, they of course brought in Fabien Barcella from Biarritz to replace him. </p><p>But it still hasn't actually been done apparently (retirement) !...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Big Ewis, post: 673942, member: 57076"] I'm a fan of his. A very peaceful soul, and a true gentle giant. I've heard many say he's a monster, strength wise, and always accomplished the greatest feats in the gym, bench press etc...Because he's so big physically, he always had that ambiguity in the scrum: for a very tall, very large loosehead to get good position at scrumtime, by the time he'd straighten his back and get that push ready he'd be backpedaling already against the more compact Tightheads, or he'd just go to ground because too voluminous and long physically. But he was a very good scrummager and I've seen him get the best of his opposing Tightheads often. He got injured at the start of last season for Toulon, after which Chiocci became the no.1 LH for the club. Haven't seen him play since, or seen him sidelined or anything at all. I've seen him still listed in the Toulon roster these days, so I really don't know what they're doing... Last article about him in the French online media is August 2014, stating he'll have to retire given the last lab tests were 'negative'. So his contract with Toulon is cancelled, they of course brought in Fabien Barcella from Biarritz to replace him. But it still hasn't actually been done apparently (retirement) !... [/QUOTE]
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