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Lions after first round games.
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<blockquote data-quote="big ginger 8" data-source="post: 835551" data-attributes="member: 53057"><p>I've been on another continent for a while so haven't been able to follow much rugby outside of Leinster and Ireland this season so that will colour my comments on this.</p><p></p><p>Has Mako really stepped it up this season compared to last season? It's just because in my admittedly biased (but then again everyone is biased in their own way) opinion Jack McGrath is pretty much undoubtedly the number one loosehead in the world (no pun intended). Mako has some skills that are better than McGrath's but in all the fundamentals of playing prop he is exceeded by him. I know he's not an especially flashy prop compared to Mako but he's basically the definition of consitency, he's even managed to go 80 minutes against SH opposition which is pretty much unheard of for props.</p><p></p><p>Secondly I'd dispute that AWJ doesn't have any stand out attributes outside of leadership. While from what little I've seen of him this season and watching all of the Summer Tour, he may have slowed down but he was definitely once a player that laid claim to being world class. One of the problems may be that a ridiculous generation of locks has appeared over the last 2-3 years so he doesn't look as good as he previously did. However, as dullonien said he did have a quality offload, he was a powerful in tight carrier with the ability to slip an intelligent offload. In general his in tight work was of a very high standard but his scrummaging stood out compared to his peers, although it is worth noting he was part of a very strong scrum overall albeit a key lynchpin of it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="big ginger 8, post: 835551, member: 53057"] I've been on another continent for a while so haven't been able to follow much rugby outside of Leinster and Ireland this season so that will colour my comments on this. Has Mako really stepped it up this season compared to last season? It's just because in my admittedly biased (but then again everyone is biased in their own way) opinion Jack McGrath is pretty much undoubtedly the number one loosehead in the world (no pun intended). Mako has some skills that are better than McGrath's but in all the fundamentals of playing prop he is exceeded by him. I know he's not an especially flashy prop compared to Mako but he's basically the definition of consitency, he's even managed to go 80 minutes against SH opposition which is pretty much unheard of for props. Secondly I'd dispute that AWJ doesn't have any stand out attributes outside of leadership. While from what little I've seen of him this season and watching all of the Summer Tour, he may have slowed down but he was definitely once a player that laid claim to being world class. One of the problems may be that a ridiculous generation of locks has appeared over the last 2-3 years so he doesn't look as good as he previously did. However, as dullonien said he did have a quality offload, he was a powerful in tight carrier with the ability to slip an intelligent offload. In general his in tight work was of a very high standard but his scrummaging stood out compared to his peers, although it is worth noting he was part of a very strong scrum overall albeit a key lynchpin of it. [/QUOTE]
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