CBL Yur 'anin' a larf; Conventional u/c is no harder than the nose wheel stuff, it's just differentish. All the scare stores are b(*&^%$$£cks put about by nose wheel drivers who couldn't hack it. Only one tip, remember to move your feet, the shorter the couple of the a/c the more foot movement needed and the quick it goes tits; do nopt stop thinking, as it's not over till you have stopped, and I mean stopped.
I think the earlier Spitfires had both toe in and camber and on tarmac, they chomped tyres with remarkable repacity.