{"id":9656,"date":"2016-03-04T10:01:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T10:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/?p=9656"},"modified":"2016-03-04T10:01:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T10:01:39","slug":"wales-prop-star-evans-has-tough-challenges-ahead-says-forwards-guru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2016\/03\/04\/wales-prop-star-evans-has-tough-challenges-ahead-says-forwards-guru\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales&#039; prop star Evans has tough challenges ahead, says forwards guru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WALES forwards coach <strong>Robin McBryde<\/strong> has predicted tougher challenges for young loose-head prop <strong>Rob Evans<\/strong>, despite an impressive start to his test career.<br \/>\nScarlets prop Rob Evans has enjoyed an impressive start to test rugby with his dynamic ball carrying, and powerful scrummaging proving a handful for the opposition.<br \/>\nHowever, despite a promising start, former Llanelli hooker McBryde was quick to warn Evans of the challenge he will face at Twickenham.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s going to get tougher and tougher for Rob, it\u2019s not going to get easier because the more you play at international level the more sides are going to analyse you individually, and the way you fit into a team,\u201d said McBryde.<br \/>\n\u201cWith the scrum being a big part of modern day rugby, you\u2019ve got four different angles of the scrum.<br \/>\n\u201cSo your going to be really analysed and any weakness that you may have is going to be pinpointed and analysed.\u201d<br \/>\nThe six times capped Haverfordwest native has played his part in a vastly improved Welsh scrum performance, with McBryde complimentary on the impact of Evans on the squad.<br \/>\nMcBryde said: \u201cHis set-piece work has surprised a lot of people with regards to how technically proficient he\u2019s been, and I thought he was a little bit unlucky with a couple of calls he had last Friday.<br \/>\n\u201cHe\u2019s enthusiastic, it\u2019s what he brings to the squad as well.<br \/>\nDespite his impact in the first three rounds of the Championship, the former Welsh international stressed that Evans is a work in progress.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9657\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9657\" style=\"width: 335px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/McBryde-Eng.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9657\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-9657\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/McBryde-Eng-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Wales forwards coach Robin McBryde urges caution\" width=\"335\" height=\"251\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9657\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9657\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/McBryde-Eng-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Wales forwards coach Robin McBryde urges caution\" width=\"335\" height=\"251\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> <strong>Forwards coach Robin McBryde\u00a0sounds waning<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n\u201cHe\u2019s a bundle of energy, and long may that continue,\u201d he said.<br \/>\n\u201cYou\u2019ve got to temper that a little bit because he couldn\u2019t run past the ball without picking it up the first 20 minutes against France.<br \/>\n\u201cHe\u2019d obviously read Sonny Bill\u2019s autobiography or something the morning of the game because there were three cat-flaps (off-loads) in those 20 minutes.<br \/>\n\u201cSo he just need to temper that a little bit, and that will come with experience, but what you can\u2019t do is dampen down his enthusiasm because he\u2019s alive in a game both in attack and defence.\u201d<br \/>\nIn recent years one area where Warren Gatland\u2019s side have arguably held the upper hand over England has been the breakdown.<br \/>\nWales have two out-and out-fetchers in their ranks, while England have so far opted to play James Haskell out of position at open-side.<br \/>\nHowever, the Wales forward coach claimed that the breakdown battle would be a collective effort.<br \/>\nHe said: \u201cHow effective you are as an open-side all depends how effective you are in attack with regards to getting across the gain-line.<br \/>\n\u201cDefensively, perhaps you\u2019ve got to rely on somebody else to put a big hit in, and then you\u2019re right on the shoulder to get over the ball.<br \/>\n\u201cAs a unit they are a pretty tough, physical bunch with Robshaw, Haskell, and Vunipola.<br \/>\n\u201cThey are very physical, so sometimes its not all about jacking, it\u2019s about taking that space over the ball as well, and winning that space.<br \/>\n\u201cHaving said that, someone with Sam Warburton\u2019s qualities, his mind-set is defensively oriented with regards to measuring himself on the number of jackals he gets.<br \/>\n\u201cIt will be a battle, and 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Scarlets prop Rob Evans has enjoyed an impressive start to test rugby with his dynamic ball carrying, and powerful scrummaging proving a handful for the opposition. However, despite a promising start, former Llanelli hooker McBryde was quick to warn Evans of the challenge he will face at Twickenham. \u201cIt\u2019s going to get tougher and tougher for Rob, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,4],"tags":[2015,154,328,74,339],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rugby","category-sport","tag-millennium-stadium","tag-rugby-2","tag-six-nations","tag-sport-2","tag-wales"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wales&#039; prop star Evans has tough challenges ahead, says forwards guru - The Cardiffian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2016\/03\/04\/wales-prop-star-evans-has-tough-challenges-ahead-says-forwards-guru\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wales&#039; prop star Evans has tough challenges ahead, says forwards guru - The Cardiffian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"WALES forwards coach Robin McBryde has predicted tougher challenges for young loose-head prop Rob Evans, despite an impressive start to his test career. 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