by Tichtheid on Wed May 06, 2020 12:17 am
The thing I'm grumpy about is the selection of the props on the main website. Don't get me wrong, I'm as mucha fan of Chunk as the next supporter and WP is a club legend, and maybe that's the thing. The Inter-district competition was something that happened around Christmas time, when the league was in a break and the 6N hadn't started yet, it was an honour to play for the sides, sure, it was the next step from the clubs, but the clubs were still the main driving force.
Start Iain Milne and David Sole off at teen level and get them following professional Strength & Conditioning programmes and you'll have the best props in the game, as they were in their time.
Milne was almost single-handedly responsible for our entire game plan - we could play five backrowers in the back five of the scrum due to Milne being so strong in the tight.
Sole is quite possibly the most natural sports-person I've ever seen, and a monster scrummager, the much vaunted Jeff Probyn whined in the press about Sole hurting him in the scrum