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Scarlets announce signing of former Australian 7s star
By Ian Cameron
The Scarlets have announced the signing today of former Australian Sevens star Paul Asquith.
The versatile Asquith can play across the backine and also at flyhalf and joins the Pro12 champions from National Rugby Championship side the Western Sydney Rams.
According to the Scarlets website, the 23-year-old will join up with his new side in July. Having captained the Rams in 2017 Asquith was leading point scorer during the 2016 regular season.
In a statement on the website the fleet footed utility back said: "I'm really looking forward to linking up with the Scarlets in a few weeks time. I believe that their style of play will suit my game and it will be beneficial for me to be able to develop my game alongside experienced players like British & Irish Lion Jonathan Davies and Scott Williams.
"I've heard great things about the club, the environment and West Wales from former Scarlet Jack (Payne) at the Rams and I can't wait to get started with pre-season training in the coming weeks."
Hailing from Wollongong, NSW, Asquith grew up playing for Kiama Rugby Club, alongside his father as three bothers – making the 90-kilometre drive each way from Jamberoo on the South coast to his training ground in Southern Districts several times a week.
The fullback collect a number of honours in 2015 including best back at the Western Sydney Rams in the National Rugby Championship and selection in the 2015 Australian Barbarians team.
Asquith was released from his Australian Rugby Sevens contract in 2015 to pursue Rugby opportunities after earning nine World Series caps and scoring 76 points following his 7’s debut in Tokyo in March 2013.
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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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