Ulster prop Andy Warwick doesn’t give much away in how to counter what his coach Dan McFarland this week called “enormous people”.
The Toulouse pack weighing in at over 1,000kgs has not lost a scrum since this year’s competition began. Their success rate is 100 per cent and for the lineout it is 95.9 per cent.
Away from all the guile and flash of scrumhalf Antoine Dupont and outhalf Romain Ntamack and the other goose-stepping backline players, the French will arrive to Kingspan Stadium on Saturday to demolish and carve. Whatever way gets it done.
“It clues you in to working as a unit and making sure we are working together as an eight and everybody is fully focused in each individual scrum, maul, lineout,” says Warwick of the Toulouse pack. “Everybody has to be giving their all. It’s the same as open play, we need to be working as a collective. You have to be in the moment for first maul, lineout.
“During the week you imagine in your head what it is going to be like. You have to carry out that role. It doesn’t really change if you are starting or on the bench. You have to be on from minute one.”
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- April 15, 2022
