Sweet thanks for all the suggestions, yeah I sometimes like to take the old Manu out for a spin, but everytime I watch them play on tv they irritate me so much I can't play 'em even on the game. The next team with the most Samoans in it is, you guessed it the All Blacks and they are a much more satisfying team to watch (and to play too ).

Cheers for those tips Ceejay, you're right about the 5 min halfs and I know about the self enforced player lock but can never bring myself to use it long enough for it to become second nature, particularly when a game gets close, I try everything to win it and the self imposed rules go out the window

I'll try that classic 3 camera angle I must say though I always found it easier to defend rather than harder, the only thing that seemed to be more difficult was running accross field and judging the distance between you and a chasing defender when on attack. Side view just makes it "feel" cooler to play, but at this point I'm willing to experiment.

btw as no one has mentioned it yet is there some stat in particular you can change in Woosah's editor that will make the comp more effective on attack apart from what I already mentioned in my first post, i.e. is tackle break more effective than crash and what about setting player type to crasher or runner, has anyone experimented with these stats or have any insight as to how they effect the gameplay??

Thanks again everyone for the advice!!