James Parsons

Like he had his shoulder on,

the whole time but what you'll see a couple times is the scrum starts spinning and what you can do as a Lucy, now technically this is slightly illegal but you can get away with it, is you sort of slide up on your prop and you'll bang the hips in of the opposition to straighten your scrum back up

So the Crusaders had that dominance and if he could have just slid up or even you can sometimes get your head underneath the opposition props ribs and again just help your prop straighten it up so that I suppose you can either defensively you know put them pressure put the pressure back on them and the eight will normally switch in because they can see the slide up flanker but because he just kept scrummaging then didn't get off early

And he had to keep scrummaging.

He would have been told, just scrum.

Any prop would have been like, mate, do not come on.

So there's those sorts of intricacies defensively, I think.

I just think they could have looked after him, especially around scrum defense.

I can't give you an answer because I don't know what the success is.

To me, it looked like Rob Penny wanted all the attention to be on to create opportunities.

If that was the case, then yes, it was a success.

Whether you can do that against another team, I'm not sure.

if you come up against the Chiefs or the Canes, who defensively will be more physically dominant.

I still think, like, you look at the way Geordie plays in the pod system, you look at the way Quinn Tapia plays in the pod system, I still think you can get as much benefit in your game plan with him at 13.

Probably not Winger.

I think Winger would be hard for him to play in that pod role.

He'd have to probably be in the midfield.

and then not lose, I suppose, that ability in and around the breakdown and in your defensive patterns.

Yeah, a lot.

Especially even off set piece, he's normally the front runner.