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Message: [QUOTE="theshed, post: 3242207, member: 2290"] Yeah the idiocy of the 6 again rules knows now bounds. There’s almost no advantage to the attacking team if they are victim to an infringement on the first tackle and even less so if they are deep in their own half. Many teams are already doing it but I would strongly be advising my players to hold down as long as you can every first tackle, and once the six again is called take even longer to get up because I’ve yet to see a 6 again be turned into a penalty and what are they gonna do, call double 6 again? I would telling players to push it as far as they can, giving a weekly prize the guy who gets away with the longest first tackle without getting a penalty (other than 6 again). The trend came in a few years ago to get penalised on purpose on your own line because a penalty and defending another set was better then defending on your line without a set defensive line but teams got wise and started taking the 2 each time to try and counter act it; well that is no longer and option, so again, I’d be telling player to back your defence and happily give endless 6 agains on your own line until you frustrate an error. I also think you are on to something and that a good tactic for us would be to just give it to Isaako 30-40m out and tell him to flog his best field goal attempt. As you said, the 7 tackle set is no longer the penalty it once was and if he misses by enough it will take a while to restart play giving players a decent rest. On top of that, possession is key these days and a successful field goal, though only 1 point (or 2 in rare cases), gives our team a massive rest and give us the ball back. With 6 agains being so common, it’s fairly likely that a successful field goal would actually result in a 7+ tackle set for us; and if you give Haas enough runs in that set, you’d almost be back in field goal range. It would be bizarre to witness. [/QUOTE]

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