Leigh Halfpenny

Can you throw Herbie in there?

Leigh Halfpenny was awesome at fullback for Tonga.

Manly do not have to play Turbo-

I know

Mm

... who knows? But I'll tell you, that, that to- Leigh Halfpenny, wasn't he good for the Tonga?

Yes.

Yeah, I just wanna say, Rat, they do have a lunatic on the left wing, though, for the Sharks.

Yeah.

Just to- [laughs]

I was just thinking, we- we were talking about lunatics, and I'm thinking, how, how did I get to Leigh Halfpenny?

[laughs]

Although COVID is typically seen as the tipping point, we need to rewind to before 2020, all the way back to the golden era of Welsh rugby.

Go back 15 years, and Wales boasted stars like Sam Warburton, George North, Leigh Halfpenny, and Justin Tipuric.

They were all the product of a brilliant academy system.

At the time, the Welsh Rugby Union could have over 100 players per age group getting individual attention from senior coaches.

Um, only thing I, I, I see wrong with the Tonga team is that all their creativity goes through Katoa.

There's no one really, like, the fullback would be L- Leigh Halfpenny, I guess.

Not, not your best, like, creative, um, fullback.

So a lot of the, a lot of that pressure would fall on Isaiah Katoa.