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<blockquote data-quote="Pieter Steph du Teague" data-source="post: 926336" data-attributes="member: 72520"><p>I always looked at the spine more as that they're the positions in which you need to have someone who's good and reliable at the position's core skills; otherwise you're screwed. </p><p></p><p>ie. </p><p>If your hooker can't throw lineouts, then the oppistion can keep drilling the ball into your 22 and winning the ball back off of lineouts. </p><p></p><p>If your 8 can't control the ball at the back of the scrum and can't give you front foot ball then you have no attacking platform.</p><p></p><p>If your 9 isn't good at passing then again, you have no attacking platform. </p><p></p><p>If your 10 isn't a good kicker or passer than you have no attacking platform. </p><p></p><p>If your 15 isn't good under the high ball then the opposition can keep sending him high balls and win scrums in your 22. </p><p></p><p>Alternatively, if a prop isn't particularly good at scrummaging then in the modern game it doesn't matter massively; scrums are much less of a contest and often the dominant prop will be penalised. If a lock isn't a great jumper, no worries, just send up a back rower. If a centre isn't very good at tackling, just have a back rower get in his channel on D. </p><p></p><p>Obviously that's a very basic overlook and isn't really one that I agree with, but that's what I always thought people meant when referring to the spine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pieter Steph du Teague, post: 926336, member: 72520"] I always looked at the spine more as that they’re the positions in which you need to have someone who’s good and reliable at the position’s core skills; otherwise you’re screwed. ie. If your hooker can’t throw lineouts, then the oppistion can keep drilling the ball into your 22 and winning the ball back off of lineouts. If your 8 can’t control the ball at the back of the scrum and can’t give you front foot ball then you have no attacking platform. If your 9 isn’t good at passing then again, you have no attacking platform. If your 10 isn’t a good kicker or passer than you have no attacking platform. If your 15 isn’t good under the high ball then the opposition can keep sending him high balls and win scrums in your 22. Alternatively, if a prop isn’t particularly good at scrummaging then in the modern game it doesn’t matter massively; scrums are much less of a contest and often the dominant prop will be penalised. If a lock isn’t a great jumper, no worries, just send up a back rower. If a centre isn’t very good at tackling, just have a back rower get in his channel on D. Obviously that’s a very basic overlook and isn’t really one that I agree with, but that’s what I always thought people meant when referring to the spine. [/QUOTE]
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