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Scotlands line out is a real concern. It has a habit of falling apart and rugby is a very tough game when you are conceding possession from your own throw ins, it affects a lot of other things like field kicking and the speed you can release your backs at. Our scrum is as good as it has ever been in the professional era, Nel and Dickinson are excellent scrummagers. In the lose we are also pretty handy. The handling skills in the backs seems massively better than a couple of years ago and our defence is reasonably solid.

Areas we need to work on, but we have the potential to push most teams hard. Lots of our better players are pretty young.

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Scotlands line out is a real concern. It has a habit of falling apart and rugby is a very tough game when you are conceding possession from your own throw ins, it affects a lot of other things like field kicking and the speed you can release your backs at. Our scrum is as good as it has ever been in the professional era, Nel and Dickinson are excellent scrummagers. In the lose we are also pretty handy. The handling skills in the backs seems massively better than a couple of years ago and our defence is reasonably solid.

Areas we need to work on, but we have the potential to push most teams hard. Lots of our better players are pretty young.

Agree with a lot of that... except our defence. No way is it reasonably solid. We leak a lot of trys, and can't defend rolling mauls.

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With him and Russell signing long term deals it looks like the sru are making an effort to get the best young players tied down to playing in Scotland which is good to see

I would hope that they try and get the coach tied up on a longer deal too, I had my doubts when Townsend took over but the whole club has kicked on to another level since he was brought in.

Edit to add: Johnny Gray has been named as the new Warriors captain.

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