The bloke in the Tahs squad who must be scratching his head must be Lance. The Tahs will gain depth but I don't see his career benefiting much from the move at this stage.
Did Jono sign when Foley was ostensibly going to the Rebels?
They are not exactly position for position but he might have been miffed when he heard Foley was staying, suspecting that it would impact on his game time even if indirectly.
I think I'm missing out on the Skelton hype. Big fella for sure, but I've generally seen him as slow with a tendency to fall over the gain line instead of bending/breaking it. I also know it was his first year with limited game time. What are the areas people see him improving on (or being exceptional in) this year?
He bent a line or two this morning at training. They were practising choke tackle type stuff but he kept running through blokes and spoiling the drill. And he did better than I thought in the beep tests.
As I have said before: the big thing for Will in 2014 will be to get to the level of playing a block of games for 60 minutes in Super Rugby. If it happens that he only gets the odd start, or none, then he has to show that he can play with forcefulness for the whole time he is on the park.
This is to show his worth to the Tahs, and is quite apart from putting his hand up to play at a higher level. First thing first.
He played the whole 80 minutes for the Tahs against the Lions so he should be a chance to prove his stamina in Super Rugby.
In other news Paddy Ryan and Nick Phipps are back training joining Pete Betham who came back from the tour to train last week.
Cliff Palu is running fast now but is not changing direction yet.
There was more colourful criticism of inexactness from the coach with the same adjective being used, and a lot of expletives like "gosh" and "darn".
Ya gotta love the guy: old school.
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