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<blockquote data-quote="Pieter Steph du Teague" data-source="post: 777525" data-attributes="member: 72520"><p>As someone coming through the age groups for county in England, I can confirm that talent is never picked up later in life. Almost always, if you don't make age-group sides early on (16 at the latest) you're getting no where and will never be looked at again. </p><p>And yes, the second part about players being picked on size alone is also true. At a trial I went to recently, going for the 7 spot were 3 people. One was huge, over 6 foot (This is U15s btw) and weighed about 14 1/2 stone. He carried like an animal but nothing else. The 2 others were classic 7s, both made lots of turnovers (1 of them got 5 turnovers in a 20 minute game) and lots of tackles (the big guy btw, got bumped off 4 times). Guess who got the starting 7 spot? the behemoth who had the skill level of a door knob. This is just one example of many (another is our obsession with having huge 12s instead of ones with any play-making ability).This is why Northern hemisphere sides are failing. It's all good and well have 20 stone monsters like the Vunipola brothers, but if you don't have any players with some level of skill (the Pococks or Mccaws of the world) you're going to get screwed. Just my opinion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pieter Steph du Teague, post: 777525, member: 72520"] As someone coming through the age groups for county in England, I can confirm that talent is never picked up later in life. Almost always, if you don't make age-group sides early on (16 at the latest) you're getting no where and will never be looked at again. And yes, the second part about players being picked on size alone is also true. At a trial I went to recently, going for the 7 spot were 3 people. One was huge, over 6 foot (This is U15s btw) and weighed about 14 1/2 stone. He carried like an animal but nothing else. The 2 others were classic 7s, both made lots of turnovers (1 of them got 5 turnovers in a 20 minute game) and lots of tackles (the big guy btw, got bumped off 4 times). Guess who got the starting 7 spot? the behemoth who had the skill level of a door knob. This is just one example of many (another is our obsession with having huge 12s instead of ones with any play-making ability).This is why Northern hemisphere sides are failing. It's all good and well have 20 stone monsters like the Vunipola brothers, but if you don't have any players with some level of skill (the Pococks or Mccaws of the world) you're going to get screwed. Just my opinion. [/QUOTE]
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