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United Rugby Championship

Scarlets sign Stormers flanker Jarrod Taylor with immediate effect

Jarrod Taylor of the NDHL Western Province during the Currie Cup, Premier Division match between Toyota Cheetahs and DHL Western Province at Toyota Stadium on May 06, 2023 in Bloemfontein, South Africa. (Photo by Johan Pretorius/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

Scarlets have announced the immediate signing of Stormers flanker Jarrod Taylor, who will feature at Parc y Scarlets “for the remainder of the current season and beyond.”

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The 22-year-old met his new teammates on Monday before the move between United Rugby Championship clubs was announced. He joins a Scarlets side who sit in 13th place in the league ahead of a visit from reigning champions Munster on Friday.

Taylor had been playing Currie Cup rugby for Western Province, scoring four tries in six starts.

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The South African’s new head coach Dwayne Peel said: “Jarrod is a player who has impressed us with his performances in the Currie Cup and has an outstanding pedigree in South African schools rugby.

“He is an abrasive player, with and without the ball and is strong in the contact area. He will add to the young group of back-rowers we already have at the club.”

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CB 6 minutes ago
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It will come down to (as it always does) to who controls the gain line. Scotland need to stop the English forwards at the gain line and suck then into a war of attrition up front. If the English forwards are able to mix in the back line and punch holes then it will be game over.

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PB 8 minutes ago
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Hmmm think somehow the Saffa influence is to blame. RG must have negatively impacted the way the locks in Ireland play. Nienaber has totally ruined their catching and passing skills, with his defence system, and clearly Franco was not supposed to get the Glasgow Warriors humming like a finely tuned V12

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GrahamVF 45 minutes ago
The times are changing, and some Six Nations teams may be left behind

The main problem is that on this thread we are trying to fit a round peg into a square hole. Rugby union developed as distinct from rugby league. The difference - rugby league opted for guaranteed tackle ball and continuous phase play. Rugby union was based on a stop start game with stanzas of flowing exciting moves by smaller faster players bookended by forward tussles for possession between bigger players. The obsession with continuous play has brought the hybrid (long before the current use) into play. Backs started to look more like forwards because they were expected to compete at the tackle and breakdowns completely different from what the original game looked like. Now here’s the dilemma. Scrum lineout ruck and maul, tackling kicking handling the ball. The seven pillars of rugby union. We want to retain our “World in Union” essence with the strong forward influence on the game but now we expect 125kg props to scrum like tractors and run around like scrum halves. And that in a nutshell is the problem. While you expect huge scrums and ball in play time to be both yardsticks, you are going to have to have big benches. You simply can’t have it both ways. And BTW talking about player safety when I was 19 I was playing at Stellenbosch at a then respectable (for a fly half) 160lbs against guys ( especially in Koshuis rugby) who were 100 lbs heavier than me - and I played 80 minutes. You just learned to stay out of their way. In Today’s game there is no such thing and not defending your channel is a cardinal sin no matter how unequal the task. When we hybridised with union in semi guaranteed tackle ball the writing was on the wall.

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RC 47 minutes ago
'I’m severely worried': Ex-players sound alarm over looming Irish crisis

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RC 48 minutes ago
'I’m severely worried': Ex-players sound alarm over looming Irish crisis

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GrahamVF 1 hour ago
The times are changing, and some Six Nations teams may be left behind

What you are talking about is on field tactics - not taking into account that the on field tactics are the immediate expression of a long laid carefully planned strategy. Like the “Art of War” says (not in these words) the better the strategy the less you have to adapt tactics.

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GrahamVF 1 hour ago
The times are changing, and some Six Nations teams may be left behind

What I would like to know is; in a game that developed as a stop start game with exciting flowing moves in between physical confrontations, and was eagerly watched and revered by millions, why has it become a yardstick of excellence for how long it takes to through 20 phases to gain 10 meters?

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GrahamVF 1 hour ago
The times are changing, and some Six Nations teams may be left behind

It is axiomatic that the countries with the most talented athletes will have greater depth. Limiting the bench because not all nations produce lots of high quality players is like saying lets have three runners in a relay so those who only have three top athletes can compete.

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Warped logic there. Pollock, Curry and Itoje are not bigger because they sit on the bench. In the RWC final Fourie and Kwagga were not bigger than so called power wingers. If you watch NH rugby you will know this and you will know that this supposed lack of endurance comment about T14 teams is ignorance.

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Hammer Head 2 hours ago
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Hammer Head 2 hours ago
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My issue is: that we keep tinkering with the game, the rules - not liking all the consequences of the changes, making more changes.

When does it end and when does rugby evolve into something that is barely recognizable?



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jb 2 hours ago
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Over the sideline 3 hours ago
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Brett McKay 4 hours ago
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I think everyone has a eye on the Force this season, GTs. There’s a bit of expectation about them, I think..

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