62 Responses to Results of the Bokke rating poll against Wales

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  tight head on 7 June 2010 at 8:01 am

  Just a word about BJ on Saturday.
  Frstly the ref was very bad at the scrum calls in the first half and did not allow us to scrum, by giving free kicks for early engagement against us.
  Secondly, it is important to understand technically how BJ scrums and why he is so effective at it.
  He is a short tight head who scrums into the wedge between the opposing loose head and hooker, putting pressure on both the loose head and hooker, which very often turns the loose head into his hooker, and along with John Smit gets the go forward this way.
  This is good old fashioned technical scrumming, not very often seen today, and of course it is on the edge of the rules, but done well, can also often lead to the penalty being blown against the opposing loose head.
  So it is never staright forward when it come to the way the ref blows the penalties at scrum time and my feeling was that the ref did us no favours on Saturday.
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  McLook on 7 June 2010 at 10:10 am

  @ tight head:Interesting info tight head. Thanks for that. Bj does look like he is scrumming in which border on the edge of being illegal. However his task is to disrupt the opposition scrum and if he can put pressure on both the opposing hooker and loose head he will be succesful with that.
  What is required is probably that the frontrow and locks play together for a whole season. Changing your locks and front rowers every second game does not help.