NRL fat boys : Wed Oct 19, 2016 6:35 pm
Been watching a lot of NRL games on the channel we dare not name.What has surprised me is how many of the props in particular are carrying a layer of blubber which seems to go totally against the SL ethos.
Me I'm all for it as I think it helps the big lads soak up the impacts and of course makes them even bigger and their momentumn even harder to stop. Yet any player in SL or at BV who seems to carry even an ounce of fat is ridiculed. I for one recall the days when props did carry a pound or two yet managed to finish not just a stanza, not just a game but a whole season. Some of them were even quite pacy or smart or both where as today your average SL Prop reminds me of the robotic muscle men of NRL 1990's vintage.
Is this yet another case of the NRL thinking out of the box and thus remaining ahead of us.