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This!The whole tight 5 is critical at scrum time too many times individual props are blamed for poor scrummaging performances ( of with I am stuggling to think of when Cole had one). The 1st Lions test in SA when Vickery was driven all over the place was seen as totally his fault. Even though the angle of the beasts drives where illegal a player who had played in 2 WC finals, won HC's and Captained his country was all of a sudden a weak prop. Yes he was dropped for Jones for the 2nd test but so was AWJ for Shaw and that helped just as must to shore the scrum up.
This!
The whole tight 5 is critical at scrum time too many times individual props are blamed for poor scrummaging performances ( of with I am stuggling to think of when Cole had one). The 1st Lions test in SA when Vickery was driven all over the place was seen as totally his fault. Even though the angle of the beasts drives where illegal a player who had played in 2 WC finals, won HC's and Captained his country was all of a sudden a weak prop. Yes he was dropped for Jones for the 2nd test but so was AWJ for Shaw and that helped just as must to shore the scrum up.
