James Parsons

I don't know about you, Bryn, but I felt like the game plan was literally like back when Jonah Lomu was playing and get Lomu the ball, it was like whatever it was, an attack in particular, he was still sort of playing that midfield role, sort of a lot of short line-outs used and even in the pod work,

I'm convinced he could still do a similar role in a 13 or an 11 jersey, in and around that pod work he does, in and around his ability to move around those options off short lineouts.

Because I think when you look at the intricacies

like i was surprised brin they didn't put him on the blind side at scrum time like i know he's open side but i thought they probably could have moved um you know leo willie or don gardner just defensively because a couple of times the tars got on the edge really easily because he was sort of caught scrummaging and didn't get off so it doesn't free the defense to get to that edge so i i felt like

He played amazing.

There's no question.

He did the job within the game plan that he was given.

You know what he can do defensively.

You know he's good in and around that breakdown.

But yeah, I mean, there was some big performances around him to allow him to play that style.

In particular, Don Gardner was just as huge.

He had actually more run meters, believe it or not, than Leicester with less carries.

But yeah, look...

It would be interesting to see how it would go in a derby.

And I think the hard thing... If you look at... I suppose the easiest thing is he had 23 touches and 19 times he carried.

And then if you look at Mick Wright, he had 15 touches and carried eight times.

Duplessy Khalifi, 22 touches.

He carried eight times.

So I think if he could get that balance, because teams will find it a little bit predictable and they'll load up on him defensively.

So I think if they have the ability to evolve that role of him playing more of that ballplay role, even off set piece, man, I think he could be more destructive in that role.