It would be great to have player model shape their bodies to catch a ball, arms and hands out catching in front of them , there are too many one arm catch’s like the passes are not timed properly, also be good to have wingers option stand wide or deep or flat for either quick hands , cut outs or chip kicks etc grubbers etc.
Have the same passes like RLL4 short normal passes, double tap for floaters or cut outs
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Providing the gameplay is enjoyable enough to stick with it, I think the career mode is the thing that will give the longevity. It’s annoying because Rugby 08 got this so right with the world league, but I know BA won’t just copy this idea. So I’m not sure what this is going to look like on Rugby 25, but there are a few ‘musts’ for me that need to be in there or it’s failed from the start:
1: buy and sell players - this needs to be in the game and have all players across all competitions available to transfer in/out. It also needs to be not TOO easy to sign players I.e. to make a team of the best players from all over the world, would take multi-seasons to achieve.
2: salary caps/affordability - I recall on rugby 08 you couldn’t just sign anyone. You had an annual salary that you had to be able to afford. You won extra money by winning games/cups/leagues etc which meant that you could in turn buy more expensive players. Will be so pointless if you can literally just transfer in the likes of Finn Russell, Antoine DuPont etc straight away with a lower rated team. Elite players shouldn’t be available straight away or decline the transfer to make you have to work for these kind of players.
3: promotion/relegation - unlikely to be in the game if there is no mixed/world league. So not expecting this one to be in there, as most leagues won’t have any other tiers to get relegated to. Loved the fact that you could only start with the lower rated teams on rugby 08 and would be offered jobs as time went on with other clubs and international job offers. This brought internationals competitions in to the career mode then also which makes things a bit more fun. And of course you could work your way up the leagues to the top.
Writing this out has basically just made me remember how unbelievably good the Rugby 08 world league was and realise that’s it’s very unlikely that a new career mode will get anywhere close to this without copying the format 
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