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<blockquote data-quote="Leinster Fan" data-source="post: 902798" data-attributes="member: 76349">It&#039;s very much regarded as a weakness here. No one is doubting his attacking ability but when he hasn&#039;t had Ringrose inside him (which is a lot) he&#039;s been very poor on defending overlaps in particular. He can tackle well but his positioning has been poor. As Alpha says a lot of it is probably down to him missing the preseason as well as the first 10 or so games. He&#039;s been brilliant going forward though and has a good try ratio (7 in 11 games or something which I think is more or less in line with him in SR). Between that and a weird foreign player rule that no one really knew about before he came here (you can only have 2 non-europe players but Saffers and PI players are exempt) he&#039;s struggled to make it into what was a very established Champions Cup team when he got here. He&#039;ll have a better year next year though and he was first onto the pitch celebrating with the players on Saturday which speaks volumes about the man&#039;s character.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Leinster Fan, post: 902798, member: 76349"] It's very much regarded as a weakness here. No one is doubting his attacking ability but when he hasn't had Ringrose inside him (which is a lot) he's been very poor on defending overlaps in particular. He can tackle well but his positioning has been poor. As Alpha says a lot of it is probably down to him missing the preseason as well as the first 10 or so games. He's been brilliant going forward though and has a good try ratio (7 in 11 games or something which I think is more or less in line with him in SR). Between that and a weird foreign player rule that no one really knew about before he came here (you can only have 2 non-europe players but Saffers and PI players are exempt) he's struggled to make it into what was a very established Champions Cup team when he got here. He'll have a better year next year though and he was first onto the pitch celebrating with the players on Saturday which speaks volumes about the man's character. [/QUOTE]

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