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Rugby World Cup 2015
Sam Burgess U Turn
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<blockquote data-quote="austingtir" data-source="post: 770922" data-attributes="member: 54150"><p>When they took him from playing at 6 for bath or whatever and then basically straight into the england squad and hello he's now a center or 12 or whatever. I just laughed. Not only is he not the all round athlete SBW is but they give him no time whatsoever to transition to a totally different (and totally unknown to Burgess) position in rugby union.</p><p></p><p></p><p>For anyone to vent only at Burgess about all this is totally ridiculous imo.</p><p></p><p>It was a hair brained idea right from the start by ALL involved. You cant really blame Burgess for taking it on as a challenge but given the time frame it was nothing but pure stupidity.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Burgess is good at hit ups and defending other than that he was just highly unlikely to develop any true skill as a rugby union center. SBW to his credit took a longer road and basically did his time so to speak at a lower level of union before he came back to NZ and EARNT his way into the AB's.....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="austingtir, post: 770922, member: 54150"] When they took him from playing at 6 for bath or whatever and then basically straight into the england squad and hello he's now a center or 12 or whatever. I just laughed. Not only is he not the all round athlete SBW is but they give him no time whatsoever to transition to a totally different (and totally unknown to Burgess) position in rugby union. For anyone to vent only at Burgess about all this is totally ridiculous imo. It was a hair brained idea right from the start by ALL involved. You cant really blame Burgess for taking it on as a challenge but given the time frame it was nothing but pure stupidity. Burgess is good at hit ups and defending other than that he was just highly unlikely to develop any true skill as a rugby union center. SBW to his credit took a longer road and basically did his time so to speak at a lower level of union before he came back to NZ and EARNT his way into the AB's..... [/QUOTE]
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