Four ex-All Blacks set to start in Tonga's World Cup opener

Well that’s an interesting point that, because it is exactly the angle I was talking about.

Take the France V New Zealand match, we have;

Gros 112

Tatafu 140

Flament 116

Meafou 142

This is typically the way France plays, if it’s not Tatafu or Meafou it’s Atonio or Taofefenua and not much changes. How deep does that go?

Quickly as an aside, in my opinion this is much more of the problem you/that guy are trying to highlight though;

Williams 140

Loamx 129

Barrett 119

Vaa’i 118

Now you might look at that an match Williams up to the others, but he is really a freak, doesn’t look to have any fat (other than big cheeks) and has the explosive power/speed of the rest that make him extremely dangerous. Should he be changed? The good thing is that improvements in substitutions probably don’t affect an outlier (even more than thos french ones) like him.

Now on topic I’m highlighting New Zealand as that shows the 7-1 is largely irrelevant in the problem that exists. Does it make it worse? Obviously, it will probably get worse as a result, but the issue was already their with Barrett and Vaa’i being physical specimens that can hurt and go 80 in todays game.

Apologies if you article was supposed to be about something else I’ve not heard of.

Also, I’m not sure that an average URC crowd attendance of 11,000 across the last 3 seasons is anything to boast about, is it?

Don’t blame me for bringing it up!

Normally I really enjoy your posts Flankly, but this article appears to thrown you off completely. I didn’t even get out of your post what your take is on it?