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Specially for Turf.....Chris Ashton!
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 9:17 pm
by doc
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A28512335
The mind boggles at how poor the standards in RU must be!
Re: Specially for Turf.....Chr...
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 12:18 pm
by DaveO
He can't have much running at him defensively in that league and he can't be running at defences that are any good going the other way.
Dave
Re: Specially for Turf.......
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 12:26 pm
by cpwigan
I think he has been playing on the wing.
Re: Specially for Turf.......
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 12:30 pm
by Sutty
DaveO posted:
He can't have much running at him defensively in that league and he can't be running at defences that are any good going the other way.
Dave
To be honest Dave, how often do we see RU sides running the ball and using a lot of handling skill and pace to out fox a defence. From my experience of playing RU, the ball is often (much too often if you ask me) kicked downfield for territorial advantage, then only when within, say, 30 yards of the opposition line is it given to the outside backs. This is the main reason why I eventually stopped playing RU and "defected" to League.
We all know about Ashton's pace and in fairness I think the RL NL2 is probably more in line with RU NL1, so imagine how much of a devastating try scoring machine he would be if he was still in RL and playing in NL2.
I still hope he succeeds at RU, but on the other hand I still think his switch was handled extremely poorly (by himself and his management) and he made a poor decision to go purely for the money, when he was still relatively unproved at a high level of the game.
Re: Specially for Turf.......
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:29 pm
by turf
Re: Specially for Turf.......
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:40 pm
by shawcross da warrior
no hes shit hes a trator he is scum end of .....
Re: Specially for Turf.......
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:45 pm
by trotski_tgwu
shawcross da warrior posted:
no hes shit hes a trator he is scum end of .....
Dont hold back now will you
Re: Specially for Turf.......
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:48 pm
by shawcross da warrior
no i aint doin lol .....
Re: Specially for Turf.......
Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 10:22 am
by adrenalinxx
He is only playing second tier rugby union and he is basically too fast for them, if you see the clips of his first try for Northampton all he does is out sprint the other players and I expect most of his other tries are similar.
It will be a completely different story when he comes up against a team who can cope with his pace and up against some wingers who will test is defence.
He will do well in his first season like he did at Wigan but when things get difficult in the Premiership next season he performances will be worse.
Re: Specially for Turf.......
Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 1:34 pm
by gpartin
adrenalinxx posted:
It will be a completely different story when he comes up against a team who can cope with his pace and up against some wingers who will test is defence.
Slightly different not completely. Not sure there are too many wingers who would test his defence in Rah Rah are there? Apart from Vainikolo of course.
