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<blockquote data-quote="Pieter Steph du Teague" data-source="post: 1148520" data-attributes="member: 72520"><p>Yeah it's an interesting one. Obviously Jenkins and Tshiunza are both away and Gray is injured; I'm not sure if we have other injuries/unavailabilities there too?</p><p></p><p>Perhaps Baxter is taking a leaf out of the French book. More and more clubs over there have been deploying a huge, non-jumping tighthead lock to add ballast in the scrum and around the park and making up for it by having very tall back rowers for lineout jumping.</p><p></p><p>With Vermeulen, Tshiunza, Roots and Capstick all being tall, strong jumping options in the back row it makes sense that we might look at going down a similar route with Tuima.</p><p></p><p>I didn't watch the game vs Pirates but apparently Tuima was very impressive in it. A very destructive force around the park. He's also not dual-contracted this season so he'll be spending all of his time at Chiefs. I'm hoping that this is the season that he finally kicks on a bit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pieter Steph du Teague, post: 1148520, member: 72520"] Yeah it’s an interesting one. Obviously Jenkins and Tshiunza are both away and Gray is injured; I’m not sure if we have other injuries/unavailabilities there too? Perhaps Baxter is taking a leaf out of the French book. More and more clubs over there have been deploying a huge, non-jumping tighthead lock to add ballast in the scrum and around the park and making up for it by having very tall back rowers for lineout jumping. With Vermeulen, Tshiunza, Roots and Capstick all being tall, strong jumping options in the back row it makes sense that we might look at going down a similar route with Tuima. I didn’t watch the game vs Pirates but apparently Tuima was very impressive in it. A very destructive force around the park. He’s also not dual-contracted this season so he’ll be spending all of his time at Chiefs. I’m hoping that this is the season that he finally kicks on a bit. [/QUOTE]
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