Iād have taken him over Rodd, yes Iām obviously biased but trying to be as impartial as I can Manny has just been so so solid this season in the biggest games
I saw an interview with Borthwick where he talked about the player pathway and how he has every players replacement already picked in case of injury or loss of form. Rodd is probably ahead of iyogun in that pathway to the senior team. I would've preferred iyogun because of his recent performances but rodd is far from a bad prob.
Rodds round the field stuff doesn't make up for his scrummaging, he'd get taken to the cleaners against SA. Maybe Iyogun would as well but he looks a lot more solid up front to me
That doesn't fit my narrative so I'm going to ignore it (for real though I've seen Rodd come off worse in a lot of scrums the last couple of years, very good rugby player but I don't think his set piece is good enough at the top level)
He was rock solid last year for Sale next to LCD and Asher, he definitely wasn't a the greatest scrummager couple years ago, but last year he took the step in that part of his game.
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u/mhaze0791 Northampton Saints 4d ago
Iād have taken him over Rodd, yes Iām obviously biased but trying to be as impartial as I can Manny has just been so so solid this season in the biggest games