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Confirmed - Bristol sign 'absolute baller' Harry Randall
By Online Editors
As flagged by RugbyPass this morning, Bristol Rugby have confirmed that England U20s scrum-half Harry Randall has put pen to paper on a two-year deal from Gloucester.
According to the club website: "Randall represented Hartpury during the 2017/18 campaign, as a string of livewire displays cemented his reputation as one of the Championship’s standout half-backs."
“We’re delighted to be able to bring a player of Harry’s calibre into the squad for the coming campaign – he’s somebody we have been impressed by for a long time,” said head coach Pat Lam.
“Harry fits the bill of the sort of players we want at the club; young, English and exciting to watch. He’s a dynamic and intelligent scrum half who is eager to learn and develop at Bristol.
“I’m excited about our scrum half options next season. We’ve secured Nic [Stirzaker], who has captained the Rebels and has over fifty Super Rugby caps. His experience will be invaluable to help Harry progress to, what we hope in the future, will be international honours.
“Andy [Uren] is a young Bristolian who has come through the Academy and shown huge potential, Reiss [Cullen] is a young talent who is developing well, while Blake [Boyland] is another local boy who is impressing for England U18s and will be a big part of our U18s development set-up next season.”
A graduate of Hartpury college, Randall represented England through the age-groups, before playing for his country in the U20s Junior World Championships.
He said: “I’m massively excited about the vision and the ambition that Bristol have in place and I’m looking forward to what the future holds.
“I spoke to Pat Lam about what he wants to achieve, but also how he sees me developing. Bristol play an entertaining brand of rugby and I’m confident it’ll be suited to the way I enjoy playing the game.”
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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😅
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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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