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Bath centre Willison signs for Soyaux Angoulme
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Bath centre Jackson Willison has signed for Soyaux Angoulême in the ProD2, the club have confirmed. A powerful, dynamic inside centre, the 31-year-old New Zealand native has signed a three year deal.
Capped seven times by the Maori All Blacks, Willison departs England with a wealth of experience in top flight rugby, having spent five seasons in Super Rugby where he won the title with the Waikato Chiefs, before a two-year spell in France with Grenoble.
Following his first stint in France, the well-travelled centre made over 40 appearances during his two-year spell at Worcester following spells in his native New Zealand and France, before signing with Bath ahead of the 2018/19 season, where he had spent the last two seasons.
He won the Junior World Championship with New Zealand U20s in 2008 and has gone on to feature seven times for the Maori All Blacks. The centre made a significant impact in his first season at the Bath, featuring regularly in the first team, with 16 appearances.
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Just a thought on the 7-1: it obviously works best with multi-skilled forwards on the bench. Kwagga, for example, could slot into various positions in the backs thanks to his sevens background, as SK mentions. And you mention Deon Fourie, but in an ideal world the bench replacement at the WC would have been Malcolm Marx (an even better Swiss Army Knife). Looking at Rassie’s selections last year and for the camps this year, he’s as keen as you are not to end up with a Deon Fourie situation again, hence his investment in multi-dimensional players at hooker such as Jan-Hendrik Wessels (also a prop) and Johan Grobbelaar (vastly improving as a BD threat). And hooker is just one example of that progressive thinking. So, love it or hate it, the 7-1 is also evolving, in SA at least. It will be fascinating to see which evolution trumps which.
Go to commentsI agree that France have a B and not A. Mainly because of the England game that they lost due to themselves. But they still beat the record of tries and pretending that you have to play 5 perfect games to have a A (reference to the Scotland game) is unrealistic. Some time you need to play not such a fantastic rugby to win the game. Then SA would have a B or C.
England with a A is totally biased as even the English fans recognise it in their comments.
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