Bristol Bears Director of Rugby Pat Lam says he’ll think about taking part in flying winger Louis Rees-Zammit at full-back sooner or later down the road.
With Wealthy Lane and Noah Heward, the Bears’ established full-backs, nonetheless working their approach again from harm, new signing Tom Jordan performed 15 in final weekend’s PREM Rugby Cup win at Gloucester.
Jordan has impressed everybody on the Bears since transferring down from Glasgow, however his capacity to play proper throughout the road at 10, 12, even 13, in addition to full-back, might end in him being pressed into motion elsewhere if accidents and unavailability stretch their small squad.
Rees-Zammit began at full-back in three of his 32 Check appearances for Wales earlier than he went to America to attempt his luck within the NFL, and in addition performed a few EPCR Challenge Cup video games there in his closing season at Gloucester. Nevertheless, the 24-year-old’s solely earlier Premiership begin at full-back was truly towards Bristol in August 2020.
“He’s positively an choice there,” Lam informed the media at the moment.
“The large factor with Louis is he will get extra working time in his legs; he’s getting higher each time. However our again three run quite a bit and there’s a lot of working in our recreation.
“His primary place is wing, and we’ll give him a good alternative to get plenty of time in there. However it’s one thing that we’ll think about in a while down the road as nicely.”
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Rees-Zammit confirmed he has not misplaced any of his tempo or ending capacity by making a try-scoring return towards his former membership at Kingsholm.
And Lam mentioned that the Wales winger could be very a lot in his plans for the go to of Leicester on Sunday, regardless of having solely simply returned to rugby after 18 months out of the sport.
“He’s prepared, match and out there,” mentioned Lam.
“I’m actually happy with him. Daily he has bought higher and higher and higher. I do know that match-wise, he nonetheless has a bit extra to return, however the place he’s now in comparison with the place he was when he first arrived is big.
“The extra he trains, the extra he performs, naturally, he’s going to get fitter. I consider there’s nonetheless extra to return from him in that sense.
As for Jordan, Lam recognises the identical qualities within the Scotland worldwide as he does within the Bears’ US Eagles star, AJ MacGinty.
“He’s class at 10, he’s class at 12, he’s class at full-back. I agree with Gregor Townsend, who believes he might play at 13.
“The large factor with Tom is his mindset; nothing fazes him, and he is a superb communicator.
“After I noticed him play for Glasgow, I actually noticed plenty of AJ MacGinty within the sense that he’s abrasive, robust, they’re each nice defenders, actually good organisers of males and drivers of recreation plans.
“Since he has been right here, he has lived as much as my expectations, and the gamers are wowed by his capacity to drive the fellows round him.
“I simply spoke with Benhard Janse van Rensburg, speaking about coaching. I mentioned, ‘how are you discovering it?’, and he mentioned, ‘Oh my gosh, Tom Jordan is rather like AJ’, and I mentioned, ‘that’s precisely why I introduced him (right here).”
