"underutilised" is a polite way to put it 😂

Squidge is the most amazing and only REAL analyst of EVERY & any media or podcast anywhere.

I agree. Can I give a shout out to some other little known creators I find who are bold, curious and rugby mad? The Black Jersey, Wildkard, 2cents, DanPatRugby, Rian Louw,RugbyCoach8, TASanalytics , BRUGBY Spotlight.

And Wibble Rugby..

@@ericdavison6186I’ve retired from KZfaq. Fed up with the lack of pay for 80-hour work weeks. I appreciate you viewing my videos though bro 🙏

I feel the same way about WR and rucks/breakdowns! RIP Croc Roll!!!

Are we surprised, though? Who in the entire world makes better historical content that Oversimplified or Armchair Historian? Hell, I watched a documentary just two days ago from another KZfaq creator about how Frank Costello and Lucky Luciano brokered a deal with the US government to have the Mafia help them during WW2. Best true crime stuff? JCS, Red Tree Crime, Explore With Us and others. Then you have an absolute machine like Joe Rogan who would have Dave Chappelle the one episode, followed by the Undertaker and ending his week off with some obscure anthropologist who theorizes that apes got high off mushrooms found in dung and that's why humans are so smart today. Independent content creators are something else. No amount of money can make up for their sheer passion.

Agreed! He's the best.

That's the hope! I learnt an awful lot and have noticed myself looking out much more ever since

Fascinating.

Good idea !!!!! But then well here World Rugby squealing about “ dead time ” Does anyone at World Rugby understand that the spectators are not impatient and love their scrums?

You could have an official come on to check the opposite side from the referee, and concentrate just on the scrum, without worrying about the scrum halves etc.

Most pundits never had their heads in a scrum. The all shouted from the safety of the backline :-)

You're not alone, fam

Hi French viewer! I am an English first language viewer from South Africa, and when I saw your comment I tried switching on the closed captions (CC) on KZfaq. I can confirm that it displays the text correctly 98% of the time. Maybe this is a good place to start until squidgy increases his team size to include some subtitle people :).

Independent creators wipe the floor with anything that legacy media is doing. Is true crime your thing? JCS, Explore With Us and Red Tree Crime got you covered. How about history? Oversimplified and Armchair Historian for the win. How about the inner workings of the Mafia? Michael Franzese and Sonny The Bull are here.

Opens up more paradigms for sure

I mean, he could have.... But he probably didn't want to trigger a PTSD episode 😅

In the local competition Wilco Louw and the Tight Head of the Free State dominated him. W. P. Nel also was on equal terms. Further, the last scrum against the AB he was dominated due to the absence of a strong Tight Head. The Tight Head is the anchor not the Loose Head. The French Tight Head was also superior to him while Kitchoff was superior to the same Tight Head. With this I am not stating that he is not good but that his prowse is inflated subsequently exaggerated. Further technically in a lot of instances he scrums up and inwards while he should scrum straight and level.

​@@louisvanniekerk2612Yep. There is a reason Doc Craven said what he did about tightheads. I said on the onset of the tournament last year our chances to win the comp rests on the broad shoulders of Frans Malherbe and Vincent Koch.

You seem to overestimate the average rugby fan, aka 'the naive'

I suppose its called the "dark arts" because people dont talk about it in technique discussions like this. It woud be good to see if someone would be willing to talk about some of the major ones. As for ball feed, I always assumed that refs overlook it because it leads to more occasions where the ball comes out and play continues. Fans generally dont care about the scrum and just want the endless penalties to stop?

@@LMcAwesome Ball feed is breaking the Law. If you want to do that then change the Law. I played prop for many years at a high level pre Pro days. It was a different World. Nowadays it is tamer, mostly due to all the cameras watching the games. Every game was different as each props technique was different. Look up Fran Cotton and Ian MacLauchlan, Sandy Carmichael. There were some great French props also. It was a lot of fun in there. Hookers had to be protected at all costs. They were mostly wee guys then and had great bravery.

@@Drummer1000George Overestimate? No, Tom shared some good mechanics. Most great props develop after age 25 and can survive a long time as they gain experience.and technique.

@@zworm2 Oh you mean naive props.

If I may interject here: think of the 9 causing a stir kind of like sending your jumpers up to contest a lineout. You don't want your jumpers going up everytime for a few reasons, like not expending unnecessary energy or trying to lull the opposition into complacency. I'd much rather try to steal a ball in the last few minutes defending a two point lead than at some random interval in the middle of the field, for example. When you send your jumpers up, you want it to matter. Likewise harassing the opposition scrummy can obviously put pressure on them and may cause them to fumble a pass or a box kick. But it can also mean that you now have one of your backline generals temporarily out of the game, while the Du Preez, the Gregan, or the Carter on the opposition launches an attack against you. Then it also depends on other circumstances too; are you in front? Trailing? How good are your loosies? Is the scrummy you are trying to harass a hard as nails customer like Faf, or is he playing his second match and still haven't started to shave yet? All in all, it's a tool in the tool belt. If you use it too often, you get figured out and you will be punished for it. On the other hand, there might be some advantage to gain. Best approach is to keep them guessing.

I always tell our head coach that after weeks of playing touch and doing phys during pre season we should have some sessions of muderball (only one pass per phase, off 9) and backs should do cardio drills in weighted vests. See how they like stepping into the word of being a Forward where every press up is the wingers max rep.