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<blockquote data-quote="Pieter Steph du Teague" data-source="post: 933875" data-attributes="member: 72520"><p>This is a slight side track as obviously he's not in World Cup contention, but I've seen Willis Mk. 2's name thrown around a fair bit now and I'm struggling to really see why other than his name. He seems a decent player but from his performances for the U20s I've seen nothing to suggest that he should already be anywhere near this kind of conversation; he's been pretty underwhelming every time I've seen him. I know it's too early to rule a player out, and that's not at all what I'm doing, but it's definitely too early to be putting so much pressure on a young player to be live up to the standards of his brother.</p><p></p><p>It is scary how many quality young back row options we have and it's easy to forget quite how young they are:</p><p>Underhill - 22</p><p>Willis - 22</p><p>Mercer - 21</p><p>Earl - 21</p><p>Dombrandt - 21</p><p>Curry x2 - 20</p><p>Hill - 19!</p><p>We could put out a full team's worth of back rowers (3 starters, 1 sub) who are all already capped at 22 or younger. Shame that it's very likely that some of those name's likely won't get caps and certainly won't be regular starters just because of the amount of talent in the same age group.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pieter Steph du Teague, post: 933875, member: 72520"] This is a slight side track as obviously he's not in World Cup contention, but I've seen Willis Mk. 2's name thrown around a fair bit now and I'm struggling to really see why other than his name. He seems a decent player but from his performances for the U20s I've seen nothing to suggest that he should already be anywhere near this kind of conversation; he's been pretty underwhelming every time I've seen him. I know it's too early to rule a player out, and that's not at all what I'm doing, but it's definitely too early to be putting so much pressure on a young player to be live up to the standards of his brother. It is scary how many quality young back row options we have and it's easy to forget quite how young they are: Underhill - 22 Willis - 22 Mercer - 21 Earl - 21 Dombrandt - 21 Curry x2 - 20 Hill - 19! We could put out a full team's worth of back rowers (3 starters, 1 sub) who are all already capped at 22 or younger. Shame that it's very likely that some of those name's likely won't get caps and certainly won't be regular starters just because of the amount of talent in the same age group. [/QUOTE]
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