I don't think Skelton fit into our style. Premiership and Top 14 rugby are very different to the rugby the Wallabies seem to want to play. Think we'd have to change our style to fit him in.
What is our style? I'd suggest it's still cheikaesque, fast and wide. Differences are a) Cheika for a while had the cattle to dominate the middle whereas Rennie doesn't, and b) Rennie is valuing the boot and field position more but also has admitted we aren't big enough to play a more confrontational game.
Whether its field position, defence, going fast and wide or taking it up the middle, it's much easier to achieve ALL of this when you have 1 or 2 monsters that can dominate the space around the breakdown like noone else. They halt momentum and free up players in defence, then in attack, the presence at the breakdown and the extra metre or 2 gained in the 1st couple of collisions frees up players to add options out wide and increases speed of ball availlability.
We have no shortage of mobile guys with large workrates, who would love to be freed up to make 20 tackles and 20 runs but are instead having to go 2 on 1 against bigger, uglier humans in tight. If we do go in 1 on 1, we do seem to be losing that fight more often then not, failing to gain momentum and failing to stop it.
I'd say a couple big bruisers to hold the fort is exactly what we are missing.
