HC back row

[Colliniho]

Dougall has seriously put his hand up for consideration as a Heineken cup squad player so far. He was outstanding at the weekend. Niall Ronan will have some job shifting him from the squad if he keeps this up

[Cowboy]

I thought Dougall was like a limpet the other night, now, the auld ref was a bit of a lassez faire type when it came to the gate, offside at the breakdown etc. But it's always great to see a backrower on his feet, on their side of the ruck with his arse to their tryline. Dougall does that, a lot.

No direct comparisons, but Richie McCaw loves to do that as well.

[galinka]

no he's not only fit, but in great form. He is only not menioned here
because he's not from SANZAR, and doesn't excite the posters here despite
being the best 8 in the country.

After tonight, coughlan looks to be already a cornerstone of our hec campaign.
How he wasn't in NZ this summer was purely a matter of developing POM.



None of the players you mentioned can play no 8 better than
coughlin, our incumbent no. 8.

As usual on this site, there's a lot of talk about
chickens before they've hatched.
I'll judge Dave ocallaghan when I see him
playing for the munster senior team, and the same with CJ Stander.



stander won't be in munster until round 2 of the HEC,
so mentioning him here should be qualified.

Excellent post - team will hopefully picked on performance not hype.
David O'Callaghan is nowhere near as good as Coughlan and I thought Dougall and Butler were excellent Saturday.
Great to see competition in back row - might allow Ryan to concentrate on 2nd row.
But its early days and several others will get the chance yet

[LondonMunster]

You certainly are not. Never lets us down and has been magnificent on occasion. He also seemed to be the pack captain last night?

i thought it was BJ, he was certainly the one telling the Ref we'd take a re-set scrum whenever a free was offered, but then it was ever thus with props.

[FORWARD....]

You certainly are not. Never lets us down and has been magnificent on occasion. He also seemed to be the pack captain last night?

Dougie Re Coughlan:
"Our team is broken up into groups of leaders, so obviously Paul will be a big part of that when he’s back in the squad, James Coughlan’s playing that role for us at the moment, but as a winger I see myself looking at the game as a big picture." That is a good indication of Cawlins standing in the squad and well deserved it is.

[Hermes]

Great article on CJ Stander. It may have already been posted.

http://murraykinsella.wordpress.com/...is-cj-stander/

[Viigand]

If you have to ask, you aren't watching enough rugby

[mtcmolloy]

Dougall has seriously put his hand up for consideration as a Heineken cup squad player so far. He was outstanding at the weekend. Niall Ronan will have some job shifting him from the squad if he keeps this up

yup.. Dougall has impressed me, and that's from someone who was
skeptical of him before he came. He's clearly putting his hand up.
Your mention of ronan .. I mean.. why should he even be in the picture?
Even prior to the arrival the legendary and handsome CJ Stander,
he doesn't have a hope of getting into a munster back row any time
soon. To me, paddy butler arrived last weekend.

This weekend, I'll be watching Dave OCallaghan in the same vein.
If Penney's apparent selectioneering goes well, we could finish off this
season with some fairly scary backrow possibilities moving forward.

[sledger2003]

Great interview with CJ Stander here ... I drank my own tears .. he's a very smart guy .. and spoke at lenght on the topics of the day .. very interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx1dijcxj5w

njoy

[NiallGK]

Very revealing I'm sure but I must brush up on my Afrikaans.

[Hermes]

I got the words Golf Course and jean marie neethling. This is the missus me thinks.


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