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<blockquote data-quote="madflyhalf" data-source="post: 527083" data-attributes="member: 41162"><p>If a player is fast, doesn't mean he's quick.</p><p>And in this sport is more important to be quicker than faster (also between your ears...).</p><p>Being quick allow you to reach your top speed in less time! You don't run 100m too often in a rugby match, you run 10-30m many times, slowing down your pace, than accelerating, maybe just sidestepping before.</p><p></p><p>Digby Ioane, Shane Williams, Cory Jane, Bryan Habana even James O'Connor when playing 14, are all players who use to beat their direct defender sidestepping him, not outrunning him in long distance.</p><p>This is what this sport asks more frequently to the players. It's in the very nature of it!</p><p></p><p>For example, Drew Mitchell has been preferred to Lachlan Turner because of his quick legs, though I think when on form Turner had a top speed higher than Mitchell's one!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="madflyhalf, post: 527083, member: 41162"] If a player is fast, doesn't mean he's quick. And in this sport is more important to be quicker than faster (also between your ears...). Being quick allow you to reach your top speed in less time! You don't run 100m too often in a rugby match, you run 10-30m many times, slowing down your pace, than accelerating, maybe just sidestepping before. Digby Ioane, Shane Williams, Cory Jane, Bryan Habana even James O'Connor when playing 14, are all players who use to beat their direct defender sidestepping him, not outrunning him in long distance. This is what this sport asks more frequently to the players. It's in the very nature of it! For example, Drew Mitchell has been preferred to Lachlan Turner because of his quick legs, though I think when on form Turner had a top speed higher than Mitchell's one! [/QUOTE]
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