BigDan50 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2019 2:40 pm
Spencer is certainly our heaviest back five player but does not make the hard yards that someone his size should, as for an enforcer he is nowhere near in the same class as Martin Johnson and Danny Grewcock, two players who could intimidate the other sides, not any type of those players about now.
I doubt Spencer his clocking more than Kalamafoni on the scales.
Spencer does ok in attack. Well at the set piece and rains in the big hits in defence. A lot of the problem has been that he's missed half the season, don't think we've seen the best of him yet.
Manu has played a lot of rugby recently, so I’ve rested him, his body hasn’t played this much high-intensity rugby for half a dozen years so I believe he needs to a rest or to be benched.
Formerly of Burbaaage (not Inkleh), now up north at uni
Think Ben Youngs will start on Friday along with Manu.....need to get the boys back in the team. They have got a couple of weeks off in the next month or so when the European competition continues.
Tigerbeat wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2019 8:16 am
Think Ben Youngs will start on Friday along with Manu.....need to get the boys back in the team. They have got a couple of weeks off in the next month or so when the European competition continues.
Good point.
Formerly of Burbaaage (not Inkleh), now up north at uni
Manu has played a lot of rugby recently, so I’ve rested him, his body hasn’t played this much high-intensity rugby for half a dozen years so I believe he needs to a rest or to be benched.
We need to start with the best team possible and that includes all of our returning internationals.
Play them against Saints. Then we have a week off. Then rest them completely against Exeter. Then play them for the remaining games, which I'm sure you agreed with when I said this the other day and as I've said previously, win all the games apart from Exeter and finish 5th, with the results I've predicted for all of the other teams.
Yes Spencer definitely over 120kg as per premiership rugby website, wikipedia, etc Just look at him, he's massive.
I'd be tempted to pick our best team and not worry about internationals being tired too much. The 6N has two rest periods in, and we've got another rest week after the Saints game, so in reality they should be fine to go straight back in. I see the case for Manu or Youngs being on the bench if they seem sore, but the rest of them haven't played very much rugby at all. I think we'd feel a bit foolish if we lost the game and had Manu, May, Youngs etc not getting much involvement.
RagingBull wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2019 8:03 am
Well Spencer weighed 122 KG when he was at worcester.
Spot on RagingBull the weight Stats on his profile are wrong 122/125 KGs big unit.
So our website is wrong then? You quote past weights, you just believe that you know better than our website without considering that our training schedule/dieticians haven't reduced him?