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<blockquote data-quote="KZNSharksFan" data-source="post: 266176">&lt;div class=&#039;quotetop&#039;&gt;QUOTE (mackka @ Jun 6 2009, 02:53 AM) <a href="http://index.php?act=findpost&amp;pid=399284" target="_blank">&lt;{POST_SNAPBACK}&gt;</a>&lt;/div&gt;Overrated? They&#039;re solid in defence, they make linebreaks, they create opportunities, they score tries! No 8&#039;s are not meant to hit rucks and be specialist fetchers (though Kankowski does this well sometimes) thats what numbers 1,2,3,4,5,6 and 7 traditionally do. Any well educated rugby fan knows that in any decent loose forward trio, there is a good ball runner. Australia has/had one in Palu, SA has Spies and Kankowski and NZ has Sooialo or Lauaki(sometimes).Spies doesnnt &quot;disappear&quot;! He got a man of the match award in 2006/7(cant remember) in Rustenberg playing as a No.6. The Springboks later stated that much of the credit for the win should go to Spies for his immense efforts in the rucks and mauls against the AB&#039;s. Anyway, this is stupid, Elsom and Spies are different players in different positions</blockquote>

[QUOTE="KZNSharksFan, post: 266176"] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (mackka @ Jun 6 2009, 02:53 AM) [url='index.php?act=findpost&pid=399284']<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/url]</div> Overrated? They're solid in defence, they make linebreaks, they create opportunities, they [i]score tries[/i]! No 8's are not meant to hit rucks and be specialist fetchers (though Kankowski does this well sometimes) thats what numbers 1,2,3,4,5,6 and 7 traditionally do. Any well educated rugby fan knows that in [i]any[/i] decent loose forward trio, there is a good ball runner. Australia has/had one in Palu, SA has Spies and Kankowski and NZ has Sooialo or Lauaki(sometimes). Spies doesnnt "disappear"! He got a man of the match award in 2006/7(cant remember) in Rustenberg playing as a No.6. The Springboks later stated that much of the credit for the win should go to Spies for his immense efforts in the rucks and mauls against the AB's. Anyway, this is stupid, Elsom and Spies are different players in [i]different positions[/i] [/QUOTE]

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