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Wasps have signed one of the world's most remarkable players
By RugbyPass
Wasps have signed 28-year-old Australian hooker Nathan Charles on a three-month contract as injury cover.
What makes Charles so remarkable is that he suffers from cystic fibrosis, a chronic and debilitating condition which affects the lungs.
Charles, who won four caps for the Wallabies in 2014, has recently had spells at Bath and Clermont, having spent most of his career playing for the Western Force, where he made 83 appearances.
Speaking about the short-term signing, Wasps' Director of Rugby Dai Young said: "We are pleased to be able to bring a player of Nathan's abilities into the squad to bolster our options at hooker.
"With Tommy Taylor and Tom Cruse both side-lined, we have been short on experience and availability in that position and Nathan's addition provides us with some needed back up in such a key area.
"I'm sure Nathan will add a lot to this group with his physicality and ability around the park, as well as at the set piece. We're looking forward to him joining up with the rest of the squad this week."
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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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