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Finding Touch

  • 13-03-2008 4:25pm
    #1
    redmca
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    Is it just me or are we and many of our media commentators still living in the time warp that "finding a good touch" is something to be applauded, bearing in mind that it is maybe 90% likely that one is giving possession to the opposition.
    I have heard a number of commentators remark on how many opponents of ours "failed" to find touch, when in fact they fully intended not finding it!!
    The ony "good touches" are when seriously under defensive pressure and of course from penalties.
    As our lineout developed in 2004 - 2006 into one of the best in the world, those mean opponents chose not to give us the benefit of the throw-in, yet we continue to do so, and applaud it too!! Coupled with this change in our opponents' tactics has been our consistent failure to develop a pattern to run the ball back constructively, and I see no prospect of this changing short term ..... maybe in the summer tour ???
    Any views on what we can adapt?


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  • #2
    Stev_o
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    redmca wrote: »
    Is it just me or are we and many of our media commentators still living in the time warp that "finding a good touch" is something to be applauded, bearing in mind that it is maybe 90% likely that one is giving possession to the opposition.
    I have heard a number of commentators remark on how many opponents of ours "failed" to find touch, when in fact they fully intended not finding it!!
    The ony "good touches" are when seriously under defensive pressure and of course from penalties.
    As our lineout developed in 2004 - 2006 into one of the best in the world, those mean opponents chose not to give us the benefit of the throw-in, yet we continue to do so, and applaud it too!! Coupled with this change in our opponents' tactics has been our consistent failure to develop a pattern to run the ball back constructively, and I see no prospect of this changing short term ..... maybe in the summer tour ???
    Any views on what we can adapt?


    Well the intention is to drill it into the oppositions 22 and then off their line out they kick find touch at half or so and you get a good position to kick. Very few teams run ball within their 22 of a set piece


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