A new breed of back?

With the emergence of Gethin Jenkins as the most potent attacking threat in world rugby following his phenomenal, length of the field try last week and now his pin point, perfectly weighted kick through to Halfpenny, can we expect more of these bulkier, more grizzly backs who still have the vision to play attacking rugby? And if you don't feel more of his kind will pop up, do you feel he may be eradicating a few myths about front rowers? We're not all useless lumps.

Surely teams just have big heavy centers now, who can punch through defenses, so the props can get 1 on 1 situations with the opposition backs?

The plan is for Jamie Roberts to stand in at 1 during set pieces so that Gethin can go to inside centre because the Welsh managment believe he has a better kicking game.

wales606 wrote:The plan is for Jamie Roberts to stand in at 1 during set pieces so that Gethin can go to inside centre because the Welsh managment believe he has a better kicking game.