Anatomy of A Rugby Player

[AlRums]

Fascinating insight into what makes an elite player.

 

[Cruz_del_Sur]

Sevens is such a complete sport. Unlike xvs, you cant afford to be a specialist in the way you can at xvs. You dont need to be the fastest, but you cannot be slow. You dont need to the strongest, but you can't be weak. And you cannot put your team in a position where they need to cover you. There is too much space for that.

I dont disagree with sevens players being some of the most well rounded athletes. The issue thou, is the pool of players they get to pick from. Best of the best still plays xvs, which is where the money is. Think of guys like Barrett or Savea. What would be Barrett's weakness? I mean objectively, not as in 'there are a couple of guys who are better'. He is good (or better) at everything.
I am 100% sure he's the kind of person you can throw into any sport and he'd pick it up in no time.

I like these sort of test, but i always think they focus too much on speed and strength and not enough on things that are usually harder to measure or quantify, like balance or coordination. You can a bit but rarely on realistic scenarios. Carlin Isles is probably stronger and certainly faster than Moneta, but i'd pick Moneta any day.

 

[Vieux Talonneur]

Reasons to ignore Ruck no 560.

Just read an article in there about the fastest rugby players.

Pick of the bunch is Carlin Isles who was an athlete before turning to sevens with a legit 10.13 100m track clocking from 2012. Not world beating, but fast, the kind of time that was being run in the semi finals of that year's Olympics.

It then goes on to talk about 100m times in the 9.2 - 9.3 range for Marmion, Radwan, LRZ and Ioane. Presuming a flying start (or more likely extrapolated up from a much shorter flying distance) that's stretching the bounds of credibility way beyond breaking point given the fastest flying 100 is credited to Bolt - you know the best sprinter ever with incredible genetics training exclusively for speed - with 8.7 clocked at his absolute peak in 2009. Even other elite athletes would struggle to be near that.

But it's on the internet so it must be true.

 

[AlRums]

Reasons to ignore Ruck no 560.

Just read an article in there about the fastest rugby players.

Pick of the bunch is Carlin Isles who was an athlete before turning to sevens with a legit 10.13 100m track clocking from 2012. Not world beating, but fast, the kind of time that was being run in the semi finals of that year's Olympics.

It then goes on to talk about 100m times in the 9.2 - 9.3 range for Marmion, Radwan, LRZ and Ioane. Presuming a flying start (or more likely extrapolated up from a much shorter flying distance) that's stretching the bounds of credibility way beyond breaking point given the fastest flying 100 is credited to Bolt - you know the best sprinter ever with incredible genetics training exclusively for speed - with 8.7 clocked at his absolute peak in 2009. Even other elite athletes would struggle to be near that.

But it's on the internet so it must be true.

Seeing as Bolt's world record for 100m is 9.58 I find much of what your article said as being highly questionable.