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Adam Hastings to sign for Gloucester
By Jamie Lyall
Adam Hastings is set to become the next Scotland star to leave Glasgow Warriors after agreeing a move to Gloucester next season.
The fly-half, whose Glasgow contract expires in the summer, is eager to play in the Premiership and opted for a switch to Kingsholm despite being offered a substantial new deal by Warriors.
Hastings follows Scotland colleagues Jonny Gray, Stuart Hogg and Finn Russell in leaving Scotstoun for England and France in the past three years. He is currently recovering from a shoulder injury sustained in Scotland’s win over Wales in October and is bidding to return to fitness in time to feature in the 2021 Six Nations.
Losing his front-line pivot is a significant blow to Glasgow head coach Danny Wilson after a hugely frustrating start to the campaign. Wilson, who took over from Dave Rennie this year, has been unable to strengthen the squad as he would have liked owing to the financial constraints wrought by Covid-19. He was then shorn of his sizeable Test contingent during the autumn international window, and has had little training time with his top players.
The coach has long been keen to recruit another fly-half, with Hastings absent on Scotland duty, and has used versatile backs Pete Horne and Brandon Thomson to plug the gap. Horne wore the number 10 jersey as Glasgow were thumped 42-0 by holders Exeter Chiefs in their European Champions Cup opener.
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Nah, that just needs some more variation. Chip kicks, grubber stabs, all those. Will Jordan showed a pretty good reason why the rush was bad for his link up with BB.
If you have an overlap on a rush defense, they naturally cover out and out and leave a huge gap near the ruck.
It also helps if both teams play the same rules. ARs set the offside line 1m past where the last mans feet were😅
Go to commentsYeah nar, should work for sure. I was just asking why would you do it that way?
It could be achieved by outsourcing all your IP and players to New Zealand, Japan, and America, with a big Super competition between those countries raking it in with all of Australia's best talent to help them at a club level. When there is enough of a following and players coming through internally, and from other international countries (starting out like Australia/without a pro scene), for these high profile clubs to compete without a heavy australian base, then RA could use all the money they'd saved over the decades to turn things around at home and fund 4 super sides of their own that would be good enough to compete.
That sounds like a great model to reset the game in Aus. Take a couple of decades to invest in youth and community networks before trying to become professional again. I just suggest most aussies would be a bit more optimistic they can make it work without the two decades without any pro club rugby bit.
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