It must be absolutely wonderful to know everything, I honour you all. Reading the article I learned five things I hadn't known before. Good article then.
Fair play, Frank and all others, if you hadn't seen it before then it must be interesting to learn that 'something new'.
Take away that particular rig and I reckon he could have caught them on almost any leger rig, even those with a feeder/method feeder attached rather than use PVA. He's been lucky to some extent to have fished a water where the large bream are about and giving themselves up, so to speak.
I would not use any lead core nowadays, neither in front or behind the lead. I don't use Q rings, but Gemini clips and have done since former FM member Big Rik introduced me to them. Other than that, it's the same rig, give or take an ounce or so off the weight of lead and maybe some times I've used a lead clip on either a bolt or running rig, for quite a few years now. OK, I've not caught so many bream to 13+lbs, but then finding them in the waters I fish is like finding rocking horse droppings.
I think what people, and me, are getting at is that it is put across as if it's absolutely new and no one has ever thought of it before. In fact, Peter Wheat described similar rigs in a book of his from the 60s, albeit the materials and designs were a little different then. Wherever you look in fishing and when someone comes up with something 'NEW AND DEVASTATING', chances are it was thought of a long, long time ago.
So I meant no offence by it other than poke a little fun, well done to the guy for catching so many big 'uns, but that's about it.