Rupert Guinness talks to Waratahs prop Benn Robinson about the positives of being the smaller man in a land of giants in The Sydney Morning Herald.
"It was on a lumpy cow paddock in the Black Sea city of Constanta, Romania, five years ago that Benn Robinson - then a budding 20-year-old prop who dreamt of one day playing for the Wallabies - realised his relatively diminutive size as a prop could be a strength rather than a weakness.
"It all began when, as a member of the NSW development tour to eastern Europe, Robinson and his teammates were preparing to play against ''Romania A''. As he ran onto the field, it suddenly struck him that each of the opposing front-rowers weighed up to 20 kilograms more than he did.
''I looked over before the game and the whole front row was 120 to 130 kilos each,'' Robinson recalled. ''I was with Aaron Broughton-Rouse. I said to him: 'Mate, this is going to be a tough night at the office'. But we ended up getting a pushover try. It wasn't that tough."
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