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<blockquote data-quote="Peat" data-source="post: 628252" data-attributes="member: 42330"><p>I think you may be.</p><p></p><p>I do not want to be too down on Tom Wood. He is a very good international player with an awful lot to commend him. His fitness, his work rate, they're first rate, he's an incredibly reliable tackler, he's a very good lineout jumper, there is no area of player in which he is deficient.</p><p></p><p>But a top 6? That's a subjective enough thing but for me, no. I look at other guys who I'd consider top 6s and why I would and I feel that in comparison, Tom Wood lacks. There are many parts of his game that are very good rather than jawdropping.</p><p></p><p>Like, take Richard Hill. Richard Hill was phenomenal at the breakdown. Wood isn't Hill good in that aspect. I don't think there's anything he does as well as Hill did the breakdown.</p><p></p><p>Or some of the more guys I'd consider top 6s - Kaino, Burger, Smith, Ferris. Those guys are just that bit more athletic and powerful. They're the guys that you imagine people walked warily around at training. Their power made them top 6s. Wood doesn't exist in the same power category.</p><p></p><p>So... for my money, yes, I think you might have the glasses on. Anyone who doesn't rate him at all has a blindfold under a gimp mask though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Peat, post: 628252, member: 42330"] I think you may be. I do not want to be too down on Tom Wood. He is a very good international player with an awful lot to commend him. His fitness, his work rate, they're first rate, he's an incredibly reliable tackler, he's a very good lineout jumper, there is no area of player in which he is deficient. But a top 6? That's a subjective enough thing but for me, no. I look at other guys who I'd consider top 6s and why I would and I feel that in comparison, Tom Wood lacks. There are many parts of his game that are very good rather than jawdropping. Like, take Richard Hill. Richard Hill was phenomenal at the breakdown. Wood isn't Hill good in that aspect. I don't think there's anything he does as well as Hill did the breakdown. Or some of the more guys I'd consider top 6s - Kaino, Burger, Smith, Ferris. Those guys are just that bit more athletic and powerful. They're the guys that you imagine people walked warily around at training. Their power made them top 6s. Wood doesn't exist in the same power category. So... for my money, yes, I think you might have the glasses on. Anyone who doesn't rate him at all has a blindfold under a gimp mask though. [/QUOTE]
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