HE is the Welsh point-scoring machine cutting a swathe through the rugby competition.
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But just how good is James Olds?
We put the Steamers fullback to the test this week at Murrayfield, on a dry afternoon and with a barrel of footballs on the half-way line.
The challenge was simple — from 10 kicks, how many could he slot between the lofty posts, 50 metres away?
Olds teed the ball up, took three steps back, two to the left, paused for about 15 seconds, then rocked back onto his right foot and off two steps let rip.
The balls sailed over the cross bar nine times out of the 10 kicks.
Click play on the video below to see Olds in action.
Olds joined the Southern Riverina competition about six weeks ago and in five rounds of rugby and a late call up to representative duty has racked up more than 130 points.
For the Steamers first grade alone the tally is almost 100 points — an average of 20 a game, his best haul 29 points against Young.
The fullback, 22, came to Australia after playing in what is effectively second division in the Welsh leagues at his home club Bridgend Athletic.
Olds says he has slotted into the free-running rugby at Murrayfield, with the dire warning for the rest of the competition that they are only going to get better.
“We have an awesome pack, it is certainly better to be behind them rather than in front of them,” Olds said.
“But the backline has been a constant mix of players with people out injured and other coming in and out of the side.
“We have trained on a Thursday night with one backline and then on Saturday it has had to be completely changed.
“I’ve been at No.10 recently but I prefer fullback and a lot of the boys have been playing out of position.
“But that is all going to change this weekend when we return to a more settled backline and hopefully I go back to fullback.”
Olds said his kicking style was the result of trial and error.
“I played football (soccer) with a local team when I was young and I used to kick the rugby ball in the same way,” he said.
“But I found that if I ran at it a bit straighter it helped my accuracy and then I began using my hands and started nailing them, so I stuck with that too.”
