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I don't watch much URC as it's another subscription but I was dumbfounded by Rhys Henry and had to check his age 😂 glad you ended up commenting on it too

Nice deep dive

The guys Gats like's the most are the taller again athletic of options Brown, Griffin and Davies-King. Why, well if you are taller they can make you heavier without affecting your mobility and ability around the park. Assiratti is the exception to the rule pretty much due to one game which was Cardiff Vs Sale in Euros last year. A lot of players have always mentioned and think Gats has eluded himself that he takes stock of European games more than URC fixtures. Gats thinking with all this is pretty much he's a better coach and can get more out of an athlete with a higher ceiling than he can out of someone less athletic. This is why the likes of Morgan Morris and Keiran Williams don't get picked because he believes they've already reached their ceiling and there is nothing to gain. Another coach who has a similar philosophy is Eddie Jones and we all know how that went. 😅

Hi Christian, A lot for Warren to think about over the next month or two. Tom Botha I know he is in is early 30's and loves scrumming I say get him in it's a must. Also like Dylan Lewis I know at times hes not his best but i think there's more for him to give to the game. Leon Brown, I know he has had his injuries when he is fit we need to play him. Also Lloyd Fairbrother I do rate him as a good player, also Rhys Henry, Will Daves King, Archie Griffin, Alex Mann, Keiron Asaratti and Cameron Winnett. As always good to hear your thoughts catch you soon Take care

Its a shame Leon Brown is injured so often as he is the most promising of the lot, Can scrummage and a powerful carrier but i think we just need to pick someone who is solid at scrum so either Henry Thomas back in or Cap Tom Botha, we need a solid scrum before we can even consider competing with the better sides Also Will Davies King is a really good prospect he just really needs a good run of starts to see if he can keep up the same intensity week in week out

I still think francis got much more to offer,so for me francis ,botha and griffen for the summer tour our 2 best scrummagers and a development player,i also think leon brown may be better suited to loosehead

Who do you think would be the 3 main fly half options going into the summer tour

Assirati needs a bit more time to bulk up and gain experience, Dillon Lewis is not bad he can be pretty good and sturdy and get around a bit BUT he's not consistent enough for me , makes an ok bench option , Leon Brown got the potential to be a really good player but he keeps getting injured so I dong think he's tough enough for international rugby we need to look elsewhere, Sam wainwright seems to have gone off the radar a bit since the south African game when he held his ground against one of the best packs in the world, Archie Griffin didn't get hardly any gametime but I think he could be something decent just need to see more of him, I hope he gets more exposure in the summer, my 3 tight heads for summer and autumn would be Archie Griffin Assiratti Tom Botha

The Wales propping stocks make me so sad. I don't rate Dillon Lewis particularly and I think Tom Francis is done internationally. Leon Brown will always be a what if pipe dream with all those injuries. Griffin is the future clearly and Assirati is a good choice on his day. I'm fully with you. I want a TH to scrum first and foremost so Botha would be perfect if he wasn't 34 this year. You could probably milk a couple of years out of him, maybe even until the next world cup (BIG maybe he'd be 37ish). Is there not a monster prop with Welsh heritage in the Southern Hemisphere somewhere we can pinch who demolishes scrums for fun? 😂🤣

We need to keep up with the Jones' and unfortunately in order to do that we need to pick bigger players. Don't get me wrong, I have seen shorter tightheads turn their opposition inside out countless times because they are technically brilliant, and sometimes the shorter player can gain an advantage over the taller...but I don't personally think that scrummaging prowess on its own can overcome the combined pack weight and force of these monster players driving forward. So with that in mind, it makes our search for the answer even harder because we want scrummaging skills and size. Based on what you have thrown up, it would look like maybe Archie Griffin will be the answer (in time maybe). It would appear that Harry O'Connor is too small. Costelow and Hardy look bigger than him in the picture! Will Davies-King seems to have the physical attributes, but I have no idea on his scrummaging.

Brown would be the best option if he can stay fit.

I’ve said for years that our front row are SOOOOO FAR behind the rest of the world. Our props are still the short(ish), stout, FAT guys can’t play anywhere else in the team. You look at other nations nations and their props are HUGE and JACKED. They don’t have beer belly’s like our guys and they’re strong af. Our front row look like chubby kids next to giant bodybuilders when we play the likes of Ireland,France and South Africa. Us welsh are generally a smaller people than most other rugby paying nations so I don’t know what we can do about our lack of size other than maybe to look further afield. Bring in some young Pacific Islander lads or South African boys that will qualify on residency. We have a great back row. A fairly solid second row but our front row (mainly props) are letting the entire team get bullied. We are the little bitches of scrummaging in international rugby. It wouldn’t be so bad if they were more mobile than the opposition but our boys do way less work than the guys they’re playing against. I dunno, man…. I’m EXTREMELY pessimistic with welsh rugby right now so I’m probably over dramatising things but I really do think our choice of props wouldn’t make an international ‘C’ side in any other nation.

Assirati scrummaged too high against his opposition he needs to take advantage of his height and bring opposition down just as the english th did against antonio. This depowers big guys like uni