GRR: Columns
USA 15s MNT Coach Mike Tolkin may have thrown fans a couple of curveballs in his selections, but we should have been sitting on the curve all along.
(This is an opinion column by Goff Rugby Report Editor Alex Goff). The end of the Pan-Am Games for the USA was not what they wanted.
The regional all-star tournaments are now done, and perhaps the biggest thing to come out of them is how many scouts, coaches, and organizers have expressed how impressed they have been with the boys JV level of play.
The USA Men’s National 15s team will start play in the Pacific Nations Cup in a very busy 2015 season that will see them play, at minimum, ten full internationals, and 11 games in total.
And Head Coach has 50 players on his initial list of squad members for the year. We are here to answer the general question - who are these guys?
Scouting talent at the five Regional Cup competitions this weekend was a tall order.
HS All American Head Coach Salty Thompson was at one tournament, and had trusted observers at others. But the scouting takes on something of an altered tenor when you think about who is really looking at what.