Jac Morgan to ospreys

Young, which ever way you look at it, is another expensive player being brought back to Wales when they are at the tail end of their careers. Best value player so far is Johnny Williams at 24 who should go on to give many years of regional & International service. However with finances so restricted a valid case could have been made to utilise our own homegrown - Osian Knott for the Scarlets and Kieran Williams for Wales. In my mind for instance both Kieran & Owen Watkin are far superior to another expensive import - Tompkins. 

Thomas Young, like any 7 playing at the top level for a whilw, will be challenged to maintain his fitness behind the next season or two. It's such a high attrition role.

You can see the level of challenges Warburton, Navidi, Cudd, and Cubby have had in the last 12-18 months. Granted Tips is an exception.

Wil Chips wrote: Thomas Young, like any 7 playing at the top level for a whilw, will be challenged to maintain his fitness behind the next season or two. It's such a high attrition role. You can see the level of challenges Warburton, Navidi, Cudd, and Cubby have had in the last 12-18 months. Granted Tips is an exception.

Jones2004 wrote: Wil Chips wrote: Thomas Young, like any 7 playing at the top level for a whilw, will be challenged to maintain his fitness behind the next season or two. It's such a high attrition role. You can see the level of challenges Warburton, Navidi, Cudd, and Cubby have had in the last 12-18 months. Granted Tips is an exception. But Tipuric doesn’t do as much work at the breakdown and is more of a skill-focused type of player. Perhaps why he seems capable of keeping fit more than the others.

157cb wrote: Jones2004 wrote: Wil Chips wrote: Thomas Young, like any 7 playing at the top level for a whilw, will be challenged to maintain his fitness behind the next season or two. It's such a high attrition role. You can see the level of challenges Warburton, Navidi, Cudd, and Cubby have had in the last 12-18 months. Granted Tips is an exception. But Tipuric doesn’t do as much work at the breakdown and is more of a skill-focused type of player. Perhaps why he seems capable of keeping fit more than the others.     That's spot on! For all his strengths Tipuric is not a reknown breakdown operator .

he did a pretty good in the build up to the ospreys try vs us the other day😂.  Who is the best breakdown player in wales at the moment? Hard to look past our josh for me

Edited by RR1972 - 13 January 2021 at 6:36pm

crj89 wrote: Appreciate Jac has not left the region yet, but who would we be able to attract as a replacement? As we definitely need one the amount of games our other open sides have missed throughout the last couple of seasons.

supertaf wrote: crj89 wrote: Appreciate Jac has not left the region yet, but who would we be able to attract as a replacement? As we definitely need one the amount of games our other open sides have missed throughout the last couple of seasons. Why would we let a player go to them have to replace him with someone maybe not as good? Swansea City school of logic there. Just make Jac a good offer and see what happens.

GPR - Rochester wrote: RR1972 wrote: 157cb wrote: Jones2004 wrote: Wil Chips wrote: Thomas Young, like any 7 playing at the top level for a whilw, will be challenged to maintain his fitness behind the next season or two. It's such a high attrition role. You can see the level of challenges Warburton, Navidi, Cudd, and Cubby have had in the last 12-18 months. Granted Tips is an exception. But Tipuric doesn’t do as much work at the breakdown and is more of a skill-focused type of player. Perhaps why he seems capable of keeping fit more than the others.     That's spot on! For all his strengths Tipuric is not a reknown breakdown operator . he did a pretty good in the build up to the ospreys try vs us the other day😂.  Who is the best breakdown player in wales at the moment? Hard to look past our josh for me Basham & Ollie Griffiths would give Josh a run for his money but he is right up there with the best.