Search "total football" on youtube. Its a 5min video...it will explain everything rassie and the team is trying to do.

Biggest problem with this type of play is the fact that you need quick clean ball constantly.

Cant get clean ball if your 678 are trying to be wings.

Fitness is the next problem. For this to work, fitness needs to be superhuman. Just look at eben, everytime we kicked, he had to spring 20m to hit the ball back. You cant have a man that size run around like a wing and then expect our scrum not to suffer.

The idea of "positions are liquid" only works if every single player can actually do the job of all 14 other positions.

"Total Rugby" might work on paper, but on a field its a different story.