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<blockquote data-quote="j&#039;nuh" data-source="post: 700189" data-attributes="member: 55446"><p>As I said, Rob Baxter would be awesome.</p><p></p><p>You look through the Exeter squad on wikipedia and then look at the squads of the other top four teams, and it's outstanding how Chiefs manage to be at that end of the table. He takes players abandoned by other clubs (e.g. Lewis and Waldrom) and makes them into important parts of the team. He's managed to turn several young players into players that are on the England fringes (Slade, Nowell, Hill and LCD are all only 21!). He's still using players that brought them up from the Championship back in 2009/10 as regular starters! (Guys like Steenson, Johnson, H. Thomas, Dollman.)</p><p></p><p>If he can get as much out of the Lions players as he can out of the Exeter players, then I think the Lions would have a very good shot at beating the All Blacks. Just a question of whether the same methods he uses would work at international level. (I have no idea here.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="j'nuh, post: 700189, member: 55446"] As I said, Rob Baxter would be awesome. You look through the Exeter squad on wikipedia and then look at the squads of the other top four teams, and it's outstanding how Chiefs manage to be at that end of the table. He takes players abandoned by other clubs (e.g. Lewis and Waldrom) and makes them into important parts of the team. He's managed to turn several young players into players that are on the England fringes (Slade, Nowell, Hill and LCD are all only 21!). He's still using players that brought them up from the Championship back in 2009/10 as regular starters! (Guys like Steenson, Johnson, H. Thomas, Dollman.) If he can get as much out of the Lions players as he can out of the Exeter players, then I think the Lions would have a very good shot at beating the All Blacks. Just a question of whether the same methods he uses would work at international level. (I have no idea here.) [/QUOTE]
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