Because the Gallagher Premiership season approaches we check out the bodily make-up of every of the league’s ten sides.
The story of the tape reveals a not insignificant hole in measurement and form with the common peak and weight of the heaviest and tallest; and the lightest and shortest, various by as a lot as 5kg and 5cm a person respectively.
Squad age varies with Sale Sharks the youngest at 24.5 years, whereas Bristol Bears deliver expertise to the desk this season with the oldest common age – 27.1 years.
It’s additionally attention-grabbing to notice that Gallagher Premiership squads are heavier than their URC counterparts [who we analysed last week], the latter weighing 104.18kg per participant on common – a kg and a half or so lighter than the 105.8 kg common for the Gallagher Premiership.
The Premiership squads are additionally taller, averaging 188cm [6’2] in comparison with 186.4cm for the URC.
The under squads’ statistics needs to be learn in context after all: with a roster favouring a better ratio of forwards to backs when it comes to personnel more likely to be taller and heavier than one which has a better proportion of backs and so on
The edges are listed from lightest to heaviest:
10. Bathtub
Final season’s Gallagher Premiership finalists are the lightest squad this season and in addition one of many youngest at 24.57 years of age on common as this text is revealed.
Common age: 24.57 years
Common peak: 188 cm
Common weight: 102.86 kg
Tallest participant: Harvey Cuckson & Jacques Du Plessis – 201 cm
Heaviest participant: Thomas Du Toit – 136 kg
Oldest participant: Louis Schreuder – 34 years
League end final outing: 2nd
9. Bristol
The shortest and oldest squad within the league and the second lightest, Pat Lam appears to be favouring expertise and mobility over bulk for the 2024/25 marketing campaign.
Common age: 27.1 years
Common peak: 185.4 cm
Common weight: 103.95 kg
Tallest participant: Joe Batley & Joe Owen – 200 cm
Heaviest participant: Sam Grahamslaw, Viliame Mata – 125 kg
Oldest participant: Max Lahiff, AJ MacGinty, Yann Thomas – 34 years
League end final outing: fifth
8. Gloucester
George Skivington’s squad have a mean peak of 187.3kg and a mean weight of 104.3kg.
Common age: 26.4 years
Common peak: 187.3 cm
Common weight: 104.3 kg
Tallest participant: Arthur Clark – 201 cm
Heaviest participant: Alfie Petch – 128 kg
Oldest participant: Kirill Gotovtsev – 37 years
League end final outing:
7. Sale Sharks
Alex Sandersons’ Salford-based aspect is the youngest squad within the Gallagher Premiership this coming season and they’re barely lighter than the common roster.
Common age: 24.5 years
Common peak: 188.2 cm
Common weight: 104.8 kg
Tallest participant: Alex Groves & Ben Bamber – 207 cm
Heaviest participant: Le Roux Roets – 138 kg
Oldest participant: Waisea Nayacalevu – 34 years
League end final outing: third
6. Saracens
Whereas historically one of many league’s figurative heavyweights, they’re mid-table when it comes to physique weight and in addition one of many shorter squads within the competitors at 186.9cm.
Common age: 27.0 years
Common peak: 186.9 cm
Common weight: 105.4 kg
Tallest participant: Nick Isiekwe – 201 cm
Heaviest participant: Rhys Carré – 132 kg
Oldest participant: Alex Goode – 36 years
League end final outing:4th
5. Harlequins
One of many shorter sides [a good 4cm shorter per athlete shorter than Nortampton]. They’ll be trying to enhance on their sixth-place end final outing after successful the competitors in 2021.
Common age: 26.3 years
Common peak: 186.1 cm
Common weight: 105.8 kg
Tallest participant: Stephan Lewies – 201 cm
Heaviest participant: Titi Lamositele – 132 kg
Oldest participant: Danny Care – 37 years
League end final outing: sixth
4. Newcastle Falcons
The second-oldest workforce within the league shall be trying to enhance on final yr’s abysmal marketing campaign the place they did not win a single sport. They don’t lack for bulk with a mean weight of 16 stone 10Ibs.
Common age: 27.0 years
Common peak: 187.6 cm
Common weight: 106.3 kg
Tallest participant: Kiran McDonald & Sebastian de Chaves – 203 cm
Heaviest participant: Luan De Bruin – 128 kg
Oldest participant: Philip van der Walt – 35 years
League end final outing: tenth
Leicester Tigers
No shock that the historically forward-orientated Tigers are one of many heaviest and tallest squads within the Gallagher Premiership. Michael Cheika can also be keen on heavyweight sides, having a penchant for greater items when he was head coach on the Waratahs, so don’t be shocked if Leicester prime this checklist this time subsequent yr.
Common age: 26.5 years
Common peak: 189.1 cm
Common weight: 107.0 kg
Tallest participant: Tom Manz – 203 cm
Heaviest participant: Joe Heyes – 126 kg
Oldest participant: Mike Brown – 39 years
League end final outing: eighth
Northampton Saints
Phil Dowson’s Premiership champs are the tallest within the league at round 6’3 a participant and the second heaviest at 107.4kg [16st 13Ibs] coincidentally just about the very same stats as Dowson when he was a participant.
Common age: 25.1 years
Common peak: 190.3 cm
Common weight: 107.4 kg
Tallest participant: Alex Coles – 207 cm
Heaviest participant: George Smith – 138 kg
Oldest participant: Elliot Millar-Mills & Trevor Davison – 32 years
League end final outing: 1st
Exeter Chiefs
Rob Baxter is coming into the second yr of his Exeter Chiefs rebuild and he’s definitely constructing for measurement. This season’s squad is the heaviest [17 stone] and the second tallest within the league as they give the impression of being to compete as soon as once more on the prime of the desk. In addition they have the heaviest participant within the comp in prop Josh Iosefa-Scott, who weighs 22 stone.
Common age: 25.4 years
Common peak: 189.4 cm
Common weight: 108.3 kg
Tallest participant: Eoin O’Connor – 204 cm
Heaviest participant: Josh Iosefa-Scott – 140 kg
Oldest participant: Jack Yeandle – 34 years
League end final outing: seventh
All we’ve used to statistics from all.rugby to calculate every squad measurement.
