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New Scrum: Who will be favored?
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<blockquote data-quote="Big Ewis" data-source="post: 661305" data-attributes="member: 57076"><p>@ <strong>Thing</strong>:</p><p>indeed, same here...totally puts a huge asterisk on my stance. My explanation about Adam Jones is that he's on the way down anyways, he's 33 and that's often when props start dropping big time in form. That's exactly the age Phil Vickery was on the 2009 Lions tour with his infamous encounter against Tendai "Beast" Mtawarira in the scrum.</p><p>Same goes for Nicolas Mas. He's 34, and his body just couldn't take all that strain this year, started the first game in Aus, was on the bench in Test 2, and didn't play at all in Test 3.</p><p>Then there's the Carl Hayman case...was always a very dominant tighthead, which was somewhat of an anomaly to start with given his dimensions: 1m95, 120kg. Props that size usually struggled intermittently in the scrum with positioning, etc...he's sort of always been this rock in there, and he's 35 in a couple of months and was still pushing back everything you'd put in front of him last season...of course he's just that one case, and being physically huge and dominant today totally works with my "theory" anyways..but seriously, what form for a gramps.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Big Ewis, post: 661305, member: 57076"] @ [B]Thing[/B]: indeed, same here...totally puts a huge asterisk on my stance. My explanation about Adam Jones is that he's on the way down anyways, he's 33 and that's often when props start dropping big time in form. That's exactly the age Phil Vickery was on the 2009 Lions tour with his infamous encounter against Tendai "Beast" Mtawarira in the scrum. Same goes for Nicolas Mas. He's 34, and his body just couldn't take all that strain this year, started the first game in Aus, was on the bench in Test 2, and didn't play at all in Test 3. Then there's the Carl Hayman case...was always a very dominant tighthead, which was somewhat of an anomaly to start with given his dimensions: 1m95, 120kg. Props that size usually struggled intermittently in the scrum with positioning, etc...he's sort of always been this rock in there, and he's 35 in a couple of months and was still pushing back everything you'd put in front of him last season...of course he's just that one case, and being physically huge and dominant today totally works with my "theory" anyways..but seriously, what form for a gramps. [/QUOTE]
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