Quote:plzd
Chis and cliff are constantly injured matt l has a gut like a good drinker think he good be useful but how can a professional rugby player be be so out of condition is ridiculous it is a huge weakness mo f and Easter have not been replaced
Quote:Banstead Quin
Don’t rise to the troll Blucher.
Bothma, Clifford and Baby Chis are all good carriers and if they bring in one more, it’ll give us cover for injuries and internationals. But we also need grafters at the breakdown so don’t just focus on carriers.
Danny, Sailli & Mike are good carriers as well in the backs so how do we get them engaged sooner from the breakdown. Danny more obvious of course.
Luamanu doesn’t make the Mo type breaks you’d expect him to so I’d like to see Clifford or Baby Chis at 8 and Bothma, Robshaw, newbie and Wallace covering the flanks.
Quote:CookieQuote:Banstead Quin
Don’t rise to the troll Blucher.
Bothma, Clifford and Baby Chis are all good carriers and if they bring in one more, it’ll give us cover for injuries and internationals. But we also need grafters at the breakdown so don’t just focus on carriers.
Danny, Sailli & Mike are good carriers as well in the backs so how do we get them engaged sooner from the breakdown. Danny more obvious of course.
Luamanu doesn’t make the Mo type breaks you’d expect him to so I’d like to see Clifford or Baby Chis at 8 and Bothma, Robshaw, newbie and Wallace covering the flanks.
But what else do Bothma, Clifford and Chis have in common.........? Never seem to look at our team sheet and think ‘yeah, we’ll outmuscle them today’.
Quote:blucherquinQuote:CookieQuote:Banstead Quin
Don’t rise to the troll Blucher.
Bothma, Clifford and Baby Chis are all good carriers and if they bring in one more, it’ll give us cover for injuries and internationals. But we also need grafters at the breakdown so don’t just focus on carriers.
Danny, Sailli & Mike are good carriers as well in the backs so how do we get them engaged sooner from the breakdown. Danny more obvious of course.
Luamanu doesn’t make the Mo type breaks you’d expect him to so I’d like to see Clifford or Baby Chis at 8 and Bothma, Robshaw, newbie and Wallace covering the flanks.
But what else do Bothma, Clifford and Chis have in common.........? Never seem to look at our team sheet and think ‘yeah, we’ll outmuscle them today’.
Not sure that’s fair - Bothma is a bit of a monster, he looked the real deal in his brief appearance and has bulked up more now. Here’s praying his arm holds up.
Quote:Rocker
Don't forget Wallace had what most of us thought would be a season (if not career) ending injury in preseason. Might account for him not being on terribly good form last season.
Quote:HonkyTonk
Lets just hope he does not rust in the winter!!!
Quote:blucherquin
He’s spent most the last month promoting what appears to be his new business - a Namibian version of check-a-trade
Quote:poorfourQuote:blucherquin
He’s spent most the last month promoting what appears to be his new business - a Namibian version of check-a-trade
Man whose current career will end in next few years spends holiday promoting next opportunity shocker!
Not the world's snappiest headline, but it's only doing what plenty of players have done before him.
Quote:Fearless Fred
I believe poorfour may have thought you were knocking Bothma, rather than just mentioning it as an interesting fact.
Quote:poorfourQuote:Fearless Fred
I believe poorfour may have thought you were knocking Bothma, rather than just mentioning it as an interesting fact.
Yeah, sorry. Over-reacted a bit. Given the frequency with which any action, or inaction, by anyone to do with Quins gets knocked on this board, I tend to over-assume any offhand comment is a criticism - a lot of which I think are unreasonable and unjustified.
Quote:Kent Fan
Most ball carrying back rowers seem injury prone, Hughes for Wasps, Billy V Sarries, Ben Morgan Glos, and our boys Chis, Clifford, Matt L plus Tom Guest in the past have all been out for long periods.
Just shows you how durable Nick Easter was....maybe this was due to his relatively late start in the pro game after he had finished growing.
Can’t see how this can be addressed. Maybe superman Itoje who seems to be less effective for England recently will start to tail off in the prem.