Jim Hamilton
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It is world-class, right?
And it reminds me of...
Guys like Richard McCaw, David Pocock, Hooper, like the best back rowers where the names are rolling off the tongue and you're like, these are megastars.
What he's doing in that Toulouse team and the influence that he has both sides of the ball is something I've not seen from a back row consistently for a long time.
Anyone out, Biggs, anyone else?
Are you, Biggs, when you watch him, are you seeing that as well?
Yeah, it's become undeniable now.
Like for me, we've been talking him up, talking him up.
But from what I've seen this season and that game at the weekend and the Champions Cup, for me, he's a level above what we've seen in the back row for England, which is a big statement, right?
And which is a big thing to do.
That's how good he is.
You saw Jerome Kano's comments before the game.
He identified discipline as a big part of that in the semi-final from last year where they got beat and they just couldn't do anything about it.
And that is the emotional part of...
these French players that's still in there.
Like, Aldergarry is basically the one moment where you're like, so French.
Like, who does that these days?
Then he lies on the floor like a footballer.
Yeah.
You know, like he's been knocked out.