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<blockquote data-quote="HowieLO6" data-source="post: 741909" data-attributes="member: 52873"><p>Samu is a good case and point of what could be. I think either his old man or uncle was a decent player, and he played at school. Bearing in mind, this was 15 years ago, so its hard to judge what the quality may have been. Decent grounding though.</p><p></p><p>Either way, he was out of the game, and then playing amateur rugby in San Fran. In his first season in the Premiership, he was named in the Dream Team. Yes, he's an outlier, and yes, there will be the problem of the positions where physical gifts aren't needed (9 & 10, most significantly), but he went from an amateur setup at a time when little development existed to knocking seven bells out of the Prem.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HowieLO6, post: 741909, member: 52873"] Samu is a good case and point of what could be. I think either his old man or uncle was a decent player, and he played at school. Bearing in mind, this was 15 years ago, so its hard to judge what the quality may have been. Decent grounding though. Either way, he was out of the game, and then playing amateur rugby in San Fran. In his first season in the Premiership, he was named in the Dream Team. Yes, he's an outlier, and yes, there will be the problem of the positions where physical gifts aren't needed (9 & 10, most significantly), but he went from an amateur setup at a time when little development existed to knocking seven bells out of the Prem. [/QUOTE]
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