Ross Karl

like he's three games in yeah like he's doing extremely well super rugby he's and i think that was probably the most impressive is that that blues loose forward trio you know he was the shining light yeah you know on the park as a lucy which says a lot because they're pretty pretty handy on the other side that's a good trio one of the interesting things i on looking at the stats brinner over the weekend was comparing the stats of tavatava nawai and less defying you know one wearing 12 one wearing seven but also playing 13.

one thing it seemed to me like when you see him and he tackles rather than going right to ground with them he almost as he gets in towards the ground he throws them down and that creates the space and then because the space is already there he can just follow in and grab the ball like he doesn't have to do the down to the ground up you'd be amazed like how many times they do that during the week like the drill is it's three players and you've got the tackler or the main defender on the attacking player who will look to get on that outline

So Bryn, considering the similarity in those two skill sets, considering they both had about the same carries, same number of turnovers, same number of rucks hit, all of the things that they're doing are so similar.

If you were to select an all-black team, is there a place where you can have an all-black team with both of those two guys on the field?

We're playing.

We're not being serious.

You need to call Jamie Joseph and give him two or three games in a row like that before we do it.

Although Tomoti was on the podcast last year and he did tell us that he really would like, didn't he, Brenna?

He said he would really like to have a crack at it at some point.

Now, I mean, one of the other options for both of them is obviously the wing, but when we're looking at wingers at the moment, and I know that we can be a bit knee-jerk at times when someone scores a hat-trick or scores four tries, but I think it's fair to say that Josh Morby's body of work, since moving to the wing from full-back to make room for Harkin at the back,

has been quite outstanding, Brennus.

The key difference there between obviously Tangi Tao is the other real contender for that right wing spot is defenders beaten in line breaks.

You know, Tangi Tao is your fast guy, your guy who beats a man, you know, and then you've got your kind of Rolls Royce fullback, Morby, who doesn't make mistakes, is clean, will be in the right place at the right time, but maybe in a one-on-one situation, he's not going to make something out of nothing in the same way.

It's a tough decision to make as to what your direction is there, Bryn.

Yeah.

So if you're a right winger, you need to be able to

cut back in more effectively but have the pace to just take it on the outside you don't need a left foot step as much yeah well yeah well not as much like because if you've got space

A piece of clarification from our two outside backs here.

Yeah.

If you're on the left wing and you're kicking with your left foot, my natural thought was if you're on the left wing, you'd want to kick with your right because that would allow you a better angle to kick out.