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<blockquote data-quote="BokMagic" data-source="post: 155031"><p>Well, the biggest problem for the Aussies is a quality scrummaging tighthead. You guys are pretty well covered at loosehead, too bad Connolly doesn`t rate Nic Henderson, he`s a very powerful scrummager in my book. And of course, what Jeremy Paul might lack in terms of contributions in the loose, he more than makes up for in scrummaging ability. True about a big, powerful tighthead lock, someone in the Garrick Morgan mould would be nice, but there ain`t too many around right now.</p><p></p><p>But really, I think that if you guys are looking for one area of immediate improvement, get rid of Mike Foley as scrumming coach asap. While it might be true that the Aussies have never been the world`s strongest scrummagers, before Foley you guys were masters of the quick channel 1 strike. The ball got to the no.8 almost right on the "engage" call already. And while Australia weren`t necesseraly the strongest scrummagers in the world, you guys were close to the smartest.</p><p></p><p>But since Foley came along, the Aussies have been trying to take on the opposition scrums- and I would rather stick to what works well for you guys. The more athletic players worked well for the Aussies in the past, as long as they kept on with their quick channel 1 strikes. Why change something that worked perfectly well before it was tampered with?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BokMagic, post: 155031"] Well, the biggest problem for the Aussies is a quality scrummaging tighthead. You guys are pretty well covered at loosehead, too bad Connolly doesn`t rate Nic Henderson, he`s a very powerful scrummager in my book. And of course, what Jeremy Paul might lack in terms of contributions in the loose, he more than makes up for in scrummaging ability. True about a big, powerful tighthead lock, someone in the Garrick Morgan mould would be nice, but there ain`t too many around right now. But really, I think that if you guys are looking for one area of immediate improvement, get rid of Mike Foley as scrumming coach asap. While it might be true that the Aussies have never been the world`s strongest scrummagers, before Foley you guys were masters of the quick channel 1 strike. The ball got to the no.8 almost right on the "engage" call already. And while Australia weren`t necesseraly the strongest scrummagers in the world, you guys were close to the smartest. But since Foley came along, the Aussies have been trying to take on the opposition scrums- and I would rather stick to what works well for you guys. The more athletic players worked well for the Aussies in the past, as long as they kept on with their quick channel 1 strikes. Why change something that worked perfectly well before it was tampered with? [/QUOTE]
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