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<blockquote data-quote="TRF_heineken" data-source="post: 575356" data-attributes="member: 40658"><p>Not necessarily... It's more I think to do with how they were groomed from the lower levels, and the type of style they play.</p><p></p><p>In SA, loosehead props are more agile, better ball carriers, and not always the best scrummagers, whereas tightheads do the "donkeywork". Scrum, Ruck, Pick up players in lineouts, clear out players and are most of the time very slow.</p><p></p><p>I used to be a tighthead prop in highschool, and got taught a certain way to scrum, where I use my right arm more than my left arm. Then in my final year in Highschool, they moved me over to loosehead to help me improve my overall looser play. Scrummaging, was a whole new ball game, I had to learn how to keep myself up with my left arm, I had to learn that if I drop, everyone drops, because my left arm is much weaker than my right arm, there were a lot of new things that I had to learn from scratch.</p><p></p><p>As for the pro's, I think it's more of whatever position they are most comfortable with at scrum time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TRF_heineken, post: 575356, member: 40658"] Not necessarily... It's more I think to do with how they were groomed from the lower levels, and the type of style they play. In SA, loosehead props are more agile, better ball carriers, and not always the best scrummagers, whereas tightheads do the "donkeywork". Scrum, Ruck, Pick up players in lineouts, clear out players and are most of the time very slow. I used to be a tighthead prop in highschool, and got taught a certain way to scrum, where I use my right arm more than my left arm. Then in my final year in Highschool, they moved me over to loosehead to help me improve my overall looser play. Scrummaging, was a whole new ball game, I had to learn how to keep myself up with my left arm, I had to learn that if I drop, everyone drops, because my left arm is much weaker than my right arm, there were a lot of new things that I had to learn from scratch. As for the pro's, I think it's more of whatever position they are most comfortable with at scrum time. [/QUOTE]
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