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Late Tackle: Recruiting the Wright way
By RugbyPass
Gareth Wright, Western Province's kicking coach and recruiter, joins the Late Tackle team on the couch to speak about what goes into recruiting players for the union.
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After a two-week leave of absence, Morgan Newman is back and as highly opinionated as ever.
The team chats about Springbok legend Bryan Habana's retirement and Springbok loose forward Jaco Kriel leaving South Africa to ply his trade in England.
Speaking of retirement, Keegan Daniel gets a call from the couch for a post-rugby chat and shares a funny story about Morgan from their time in the South Africa Under-21 squad back in 2006.
Gareth's brain is picked about the current Springbok flyhalf stocks and he reveals who he feels is the current front-runner for that spot before the Super Rugby chat goes full force - especially form Morgan.
The show wraps up with Gareth sharing the nuances of recruiting and what it is that recruiters look for in a young player.
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Australia definitely the game of the weekend. Wallabies by 3.
Go to commentsSmith is playing a different game with the rest of the backs struggling to understand. That's the problem with so called playmakers, if nobody gets what they're doing then it often just leads to a turnover. It gets worse when Borthwick changes one of them, which is why they don't score points at the end. Sometimes having a brilliant playmaker can be problematic if a team cannot be built around them. Once again Borthwick seems lacking in either coaching or selection. I can't help but think it's the latter coupled with pressure to select the big name players.
Lastly, his forward replacements are poor and exposed either lack of depth or selection pressure. Cole hemorrhages scrum penalties whenever he comes on, opponents take advantage of the England scrum and close out the game. Is that the best England can offer?
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