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<blockquote data-quote="madflyhalf" data-source="post: 520487" data-attributes="member: 41162"><p>Aye.</p><p></p><p>IMO Aplon is A WORLD more physical than Shane Williams, I've seen him placing some hits I've never seen made by Shane Williams, Aplon is more prone to physical contest than Shane, they have quite different under this aspect, but they are equally talented, in the case of Shane Williams, someone realized (with some delay) his potential and used him well.</p><p>In the case of Aplon not entirely.</p><p></p><p>Just the way of Welsh attacking patterns, spreading the ball wide to the winger since the very first phase tells how they want to explore space (in width) before doing it in depth, trying to create chances of exploring the defence even for small-sized players!</p><p>Which is CLEARLY not a Springbok's pattern. Instead this is one of the ways the Stormers attack (especially in the last 2 years, not too often this year, they prefer some direct runners BTW), and Aplon is more suited to Stormers plan than SA (obviously)</p><p></p><p>IMO Aplon in Wales' jersey would have been (almost) as terrific as Shane Williams.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="madflyhalf, post: 520487, member: 41162"] Aye. IMO Aplon is A WORLD more physical than Shane Williams, I've seen him placing some hits I've never seen made by Shane Williams, Aplon is more prone to physical contest than Shane, they have quite different under this aspect, but they are equally talented, in the case of Shane Williams, someone realized (with some delay) his potential and used him well. In the case of Aplon not entirely. Just the way of Welsh attacking patterns, spreading the ball wide to the winger since the very first phase tells how they want to explore space (in width) before doing it in depth, trying to create chances of exploring the defence even for small-sized players! Which is CLEARLY not a Springbok's pattern. Instead this is one of the ways the Stormers attack (especially in the last 2 years, not too often this year, they prefer some direct runners BTW), and Aplon is more suited to Stormers plan than SA (obviously) IMO Aplon in Wales' jersey would have been (almost) as terrific as Shane Williams. [/QUOTE]
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