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ELVs are making this years Super14 season the best on record (imo) .

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the new laws are upping fitness levels – and hense the skill sets required between forwards and backs are becoming equal .

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the proof ? more tries scored by forwards then backs .
not because of mud soaked pitches favouring drives by the burly men … . . . .
but by genuine skill levels in handling, passing, even kicking increasing in the forwards .

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… . . . . …. also as the pace of the ball moving around the field has increased the people on the mark have needed to be able to make the transition from defence to offence _or vice-versa quicker .

… . . . . . and that person could be anyone – wing, lock, half-back, prop .

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and so the Northern Unions paranoia increases as the sucess of this years season rolls onto the semis .

” the roll of the forward pack will be lost ” – nonsense . there will still be scrums, there will still be lineouts, there will still be forwards . they just won’t be fattys that the UK seems to have some sorta pie-induced soft spot for .
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i can only see a legitimate excuse in the weather – Northern pitches may be more rain-sodden and heavy; but i’m sure their gameplay can be adapted to that… . . . . .

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Long Live the ELVs ! Hoo-Zah !

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