Aussie Player Exodus

[JRugby2]

Good on him - did the time and now getting handsomely rewarded for it.

I don't think he's a major loss to us. Would probably be on par with the locks we have in the system currently.

 

[The Ghost of Raelene]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN?

He's playing overseas therefore must be far superior to anything in country. He's basically Eales.

 

[Sword of Justice]

The way he was progressing at Super when he was about 22 suggests to me he’s a bit better than some of our current locks but he’s not really in the mold that we need.

We need someone who can ape Skelton and Botha. Coleman could do it a bit and LSL (Lukhan Salakaia-Loto) does it occasionally but not consistently enough.

 

[The Ghost of Raelene]

Feel like Coleman at the point he left and his age at the time was more of a what could have been than Harry. Good footy player but I'd say Frost is better who is similar physically and a year younger and Canham looks like the young buck in that style of player.

Depth in Super Rugby is another story though.

 

[JRugby2]

The way he was progressing at Super when he was about 22 suggests to me he’s a bit better than some of our current locks but he’s not really in the mold that we need.

We need someone who can ape Skelton and Botha. Coleman could do it a bit and LSL (Lukhan Salakaia-Loto) (Lukhan Salakaia-Loto) does it occasionally but not consistently enough.

Top line for me here is - eh, maybe?

I haven't seen much of him in Japan admittedly but the little I have seen - he'd do just as good as Frost, Williams and co in being Skelton 2.0.

We regularly see that super rugby form doesn't consistently translate to test form, so I find it difficult to draw firm conclusions from that form he showed in the few opportunities he had at super level 5+ years ago to definitively say he's a big loss.