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Out-of-work Worcester prop Jay Tyack is back in the Premiership

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Tighthead Jay Tyack has become the latest out-of-work Worcester player to find himself a new club and he will be thrown straight back into Gallagher Premiership action this weekend. It was September 26 when the Warriors were placed into administration and all their players became free agents following an insolvency court hearing on October 5.

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That decision has enabled numerous players to move on elsewhere and Tyack has now become the latest to find an alternative employer as he was named on the Bristol bench for this Saturday’s Premiership match at Northampton along with Will Porter, the Bears’ short-term signing from Wasps who also went to the wall.

“Will Porter could make his Bears debuts from the bench, as could former Worcester Warriors tighthead prop Jay Tyack, who has joined on a trial period with immediate effect,” read the Bristol team naming announcement.

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The 26-year-old Tyack debuted for Worcester in a May 2021 Premiership match versus Leicester and he had played a total of 21 matches for the Warriors before their suspension from the remainder of the 2022/23 Premiership season by the RFU.

He make his pro ranks breakthrough at Cornish Pirates and played once in the Heineken Champions Cup for Gloucester (against Lyon in December 2020) before finding his way to Sixways.

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Aside from the potential debuts of their two new signings from the bench at Franklin’s Gardens, the headline news in the Bristol team announcement was the first start this season for Sam Lewis and a likely 100th appearance for Chris Vui, who was listed in the replacements.

A statement read: “Chris Vui is set for his 100th competitive appearance for the club when Bristol take on Northampton on Saturday. The Samoan is named among the system players for the round eight Gallagher Premiership clash as the Bears target a return to winning ways in the East Midlands.

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“Sam Lewis will make his first league start of the season alongside Fitz Harding and Magnus Bradbury in the back row, with Joe Joyce captaining the side from the second row, while at scrum half there is a start for Andy Uren.”

Northampton, meanwhile, will give a club debut to Fin Smith following his October 10 signing from Worcester.

NORTHAMPTON: 15. George Hendy; 14. Matt Proctor, 13. Fraser Dingwall (capt), 12. Rory Hutchinson, 11. Ollie Sleightholme; 10. Fin Smith, 9. Alex Mitchell; 1. Emmanuel Iyogun, 2. Mike Haywood, 3. Paul Hill, 4. Lukhan Salakaia-Loto, 5. Alex Moon, 6. Sam Graham, 7. Aaron Hinkley 8. Juarno Augustus. Reps: 16. Sam Matavesi, 17. Ethan Waller, 18. Alfie Petch, 19. Brandon Nansen, 20. Angus Scott-Young, 21. Tom James, 22. James Grayson, 23. Tom Collins.

BRISTOL: 15. Charles Piutau; 14. Luke Morahan, 13. Piers O’Conor, 12. Sam Bedlow, 11. Henry Purdy; 10. Callum Sheedy, 9. Andy Uren; 1. Jake Woolmore, 2. Harry Thacker, 3. Max Lahiff, 4. Joe Batley, 5. Joe Joyce (capt), 6. Magnus Bradbury, 7. Sam Lewis, 8. Fitz Harding. Reps: 16. Will Capon, 17. Yann Thomas, 18. Jay Tyack, 19. Chris Vui, 20. Jake Heenan, 21. Will Porter, 22. AJ MacGinty, 23. Jack Bates.

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TWAS 9 minutes ago
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I’m sorry but this just seems like incredibly selective analysis attempting to blame all team failures on JAS.


Looking through the examples:


Example 1 - long place by JAS, all support overruns the ruck. Pilfer also achieved by a player resting his arms on JAS - so should be a penalty for of his feet anyway. No failure by JAS there failing to secure the ball. By his team mates, yes.


Example 2 - a knock on punched out by the first defender who’s tackle he initially beat, from behind. An error by JAS absolutely. But every player makes the odd handling error.


Example 3 - JAS just beaten to the ruck because defender shoots to make a good tackle He passes and immediately follows. Potentially should have been a penalty to Aus because the tackler had not released and swung around into JAS’s path preventing him securing the ball, and had not released when the jackal went for the pilfer. Tackler prevented a clean release by Potter and if there was any failure, it was the ball carrier who got into a horrible position.


I am struggling how you try and blame 1 on JAS and not support, but then blame JAS when the tackler fails to make a good placement.


Example 4 - JAS flies into this ruck out of nowhere, seemingly runs past the 12 to get there. Also did you miss McReight and Williams just jogging and letting JAS run past them? Anyway he busts a get to get there but was beaten to the contest. Any failure here is on the supporting players, McReight and Williams and JAS showed great instinct to charge in to try and secure.


Example 5 - JAS is following the lead of players inside him. How this is his fault I don’t know what you are thinking


Example 6 - Gleeson misses a tackle so JAS has to drift in off his man to take the ball carrier, leaving a larger overlap when he offloads. Failure by Gleeson not JAS


Examples 7 and 8 - Wallabies defensive line isn’t aggressive. But noting to do with JAS. Fisher has actually said he is not coaching a fast line speed. To try and blame JAS is again selective.


Seems like an agenda in this rather than the genuine, quality analysis I’ve come to expect from the author.

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Jfp123 39 minutes ago
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So, you think top rugby players’ wages ought to be kept artificially low, when in fact the forces of “demand and supply” mean that many can and indeed are commanding wages higher than you approve of, and even though players regularly get injured, and those injuries can be serious enough to cut short careers and even threaten lives, e.g. Steven Kitshoff.

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As far as I can make out your objections amount to

1) they’ve sent a B team, which is not what we do and I don’t like it. Is there more to it than that? You haven’t replied to the points I made previously about sell out Tests and high ticket prices, so I take it reduced earnings are no longer part of your argument. Possibly you’re disappointed at not seeing Dupont et al., but a lot of New Zealanders think he is over rated anyway.


2) The Top 14 is paying players too much, leading to wage inflation around the world which is bad for the sport.

Firstly, young athletes have a range of sports to choose from, so rugby holding out the prospect of a lucrative, glamorous career helps attract talent.

Above all, market forces mean the French clubs earn a lot of money, and spend a large part of that money on relatively high wages, within a framework set by the league to maintain the health of the league. This framework includes the salary cap and Jiff rules which in effect limit the number of foreign stars the clubs employ and encourage the development of young talent, so there is a limit on Top14 demand. The Toulon of the 2010s is a thing of the past.


So yes, the French clubs cream off some top players - they are competitive sports teams, what do expect them to do with their money? - but there’s still a there’s a plentiful supply of great rugby players and coaches without French contracts. The troubles in England and Wales were down to mismanagement of those national bodies, and clubs themselves, not the French


So if you don’t want to let market forces determine wage levels, and you do want to prevent the French clubs from spending so much of their large incomes on players, how on earth do you want to set player wages?


Is the problem that NZ can’t pay so much as the Top 14 and you fear the best players will be lured away and/or you want NZ franchises to compete for leading international talent? Are you asking for NZ wage scales to be adopted as the maximum allowed, to achieve this? But in that case why not take Uruguay, or Spain, or Tonga or Samoa as the standard, so Samoa, a highly talented rugby nation, can keep Samoan players in Samoa, not see them leave for higher wages in NZ and elsewhere.

Rugby is played in lots of countries, with hugely varying levels of financial backing etc. Obviously, it’s more difficult for some than others, but aside for a limited amount of help from world rugby, it’s up to each one to make their sums add up, and make the most of the particular advantages their nation/club/franchise has. SA are not the richest, but are still highly successful, and I don’t hear them complaining about Top14 wages.


Many, particularly second tier, nations benefit from the Top14, and anyone genuinely concerned about the whole community of world rugby should welcome that. England and NZ have laid down rules so they can’t make the most of the French competition, which is up to them. But unlike some NZ fans and pundits, the English aren’t generally blaming their own woes on the French, rather they want reform of the English structure, and some are calling for lessons to learned from their neighbours across the channel. If NZ fans aren’t satisfied, I suggest they call for internal reform, not try to make the French scapegoats.


In my opinion, a breach of standards would be to include on your team players who beat up women, not to regularly send a B team on the summer tours for reasons of player welfare, which in all the years you’ve been doing this only some of the pundits and fans of a single country have made a stink about.


[my comments here are, of course, not aimed at all NZ fans and pundits]

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