Duncan Barkes
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You know, you don't just pick up some loose guy if you're defending a corner.
You don't just pick up one of their players in the box and say, oh, I'll have him.
And it was clear that Chaplin had been designated to mark Odeluga Ophir.
It was very brave of him to actually get confrontational and physical with a fire, which he was doing.
He was blocking him, holding him, arguing with him, making his life difficult.
And it was, you know, like a Laurel and Hardy situation.
A huge guy and a very, very not huge guy.
Anyway, just as a matter of interest, so you can picture how big O'Fire is, his uncle is a guy called Martin O'Fire, a legendary rugby player, rugby union and rugby league, who was beyond huge and beyond quick.
And O'daluga has got an awful lot of his attributes.
So I think that one of Martin O'Fire's other nephews also plays professional rugby union for Bath.
But O'daluga O'Fire was huge and fast.
And we had nobody better to mark him than Conor Chaplin.
We need some height and we need some beef.
Because let's talk about corners for just a second.