johnthegriff wrote:If a player literally cannot kick a ball by the age of twenty you can't teach him to do it well. If he is unwilling to tackle then he is not going to earn a place in a Premiership team without a massive change from the player. Time will tell if any player released by Tigers has the talent and is determined to succeed then they will make the grade elsewhere. At the moment I cannot think of any young player other than Big Jim Hamilton and George Ford who has left Tigers and commanded a regular place with a top four club.
You mean like the front rower who can't scrummage!
Wingers with feet that quick don't usually need to kick and aren't very good at it anyway as their feet are so fast they usually end up tripping over themselves before gravity brings the ball down.
His tackling looked alright.
johnthegriff wrote:If a player literally cannot kick a ball by the age of twenty you can't teach him to do it well. If he is unwilling to tackle then he is not going to earn a place in a Premiership team without a massive change from the player. Time will tell if any player released by Tigers has the talent and is determined to succeed then they will make the grade elsewhere. At the moment I cannot think of any young player other than Big Jim Hamilton and George Ford who has left Tigers and commanded a regular place with a top four club.
Pretty sure Jason Robinson learnt how to kick a ball when he came over to Union in his 20s...........
Odogwu's tackling has been fine in all the games I have watched him and even if you couldn't teach him how to kick (Very unlikely)...... Yarde, May, Monye and plenty more are examples of how mal-coordinated people can still be very good wingers.
I remember getting freebies to a Quins game and watching both Monye and Yarde miss the ball in the same game while trying to kick and giving away knock ons.
We seem to have collected most of the Cockers-knockers and Doom-Mongers on the thread, just need Roly to weigh in with magisterial finality. Time, of course, will tell.
Leicester Tigers 1995-
Nottingham 1995-2000
Swansea (Whites) 1988-95
A game played on grass in the open air by teams of XV.
The game was played in 4 quarters with plenty of subs. Our starting team had only 3 newcomers: Holmes in the 2nd row, Evans at 12 & Yawayawa at 14 who was the standout on the day. He made good ground, missed no tackles & did not waste a ball.
