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<blockquote data-quote="psychic duck" data-source="post: 544500" data-attributes="member: 48703"><p>I agree with most of your post Dullonien.</p><p></p><p>I think the Scarlets should consider offloading one of McCusker or Turnbull, they are both blindsides (mayve Turnbull is a 6.5?) and neither has shown the capability as yet to play at a high level elsewhere in the back row despite plenty of opportunity. Murphy is a better 8 than McCusker is from what I've seen.</p><p></p><p>They could be moved back to 6, but then Shingler is better than them both there anyway as you say.</p><p></p><p>If they could get rid of one of the two and then bring in a proper #7 or #8 then that would be best for them.</p><p></p><p>Also unfortunately for the Scarlets some of the overseas signings (Adriaanse, Vallejos etc) to strengthen the front 5 haven't worked too well. They need to take a lesson from how London Welsh recruited, they realised that their front 5 needed strengthening to play in the Premiership and they brought in two French props and a Romanian and now their scrum has done well this season despite predictions suggesting otherwise pre season.</p><p></p><p>None of those props would have been out of the Scarlets (or Blues or Dragons for that matter) price range, but they spent the time identifying them (after the main period of transfers had finished and choice would have been much smaller as well) and got rewarded for it.</p><p></p><p>The three teams above all have poor front fives, and yet the Blues recruit Ma'afu, the Dragons recruit extra players for their back 3 (which wasn't a weak area for them) and bring in Tim Ryan, whilst the Scarlets sign Adriaanse who is little improvement on Manu (who as you say is declining) and Vallejos who is a lock who offers little grunt they needed.</p><p></p><p>I haven't been at all impressed with Gareth Owen for the Scarlets this season tbh. I think people still hold out hope on his early potential, but he's been around a while and hasn't progressed and I think people need to accept that he's simply not good now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="psychic duck, post: 544500, member: 48703"] I agree with most of your post Dullonien. I think the Scarlets should consider offloading one of McCusker or Turnbull, they are both blindsides (mayve Turnbull is a 6.5?) and neither has shown the capability as yet to play at a high level elsewhere in the back row despite plenty of opportunity. Murphy is a better 8 than McCusker is from what I've seen. They could be moved back to 6, but then Shingler is better than them both there anyway as you say. If they could get rid of one of the two and then bring in a proper #7 or #8 then that would be best for them. Also unfortunately for the Scarlets some of the overseas signings (Adriaanse, Vallejos etc) to strengthen the front 5 haven't worked too well. They need to take a lesson from how London Welsh recruited, they realised that their front 5 needed strengthening to play in the Premiership and they brought in two French props and a Romanian and now their scrum has done well this season despite predictions suggesting otherwise pre season. None of those props would have been out of the Scarlets (or Blues or Dragons for that matter) price range, but they spent the time identifying them (after the main period of transfers had finished and choice would have been much smaller as well) and got rewarded for it. The three teams above all have poor front fives, and yet the Blues recruit Ma'afu, the Dragons recruit extra players for their back 3 (which wasn't a weak area for them) and bring in Tim Ryan, whilst the Scarlets sign Adriaanse who is little improvement on Manu (who as you say is declining) and Vallejos who is a lock who offers little grunt they needed. I haven't been at all impressed with Gareth Owen for the Scarlets this season tbh. I think people still hold out hope on his early potential, but he's been around a while and hasn't progressed and I think people need to accept that he's simply not good now. [/QUOTE]
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