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Message: [QUOTE="Huge, post: 3242444, member: 1992"] Don't worry, I didn't just consider the effect on one team!!! Not sure how you reached the silly conclusion that I didn't understand defending is harder than attacking. I mean, the whole thrust of my idea is that we halve the defending we do!!! Really? How do you think I am missing or haven't thought about the effects of endlessly defending when MY WHOLE IDEA is to stop doing so much? If we have the ball we aren't defending and if we double the time we have the ball we halve the time defending!!! I kind of get it. Sure, there's the effect on the other team but we can only control what we do. I'm just suggesting that at certain times we slow down, control the frantic pace, play with precise control and have a breather especially just after they've scored and we finally get the ball back. You've seen it yourself. They score, we huddle, we kick off, they're full of running, we are again defending and the FINALLY we get the ball back, usually 5-7 metres out from our line. Yes? You recognise this ? Is this not what happens? So, what do we usually do? A winger takes a hit up, a centre takes a hitup, followed by another winger or centre and we're barely past 20 if at all. It's our one fucking chance to take control and we waste it, totally waste it. We don't get all the value available in our possession. This insane frantic desire for a fast ptb works against us. As you said, it takes more out of a team defending than attacking so why give the defence so little time actually defending? You have seen the scenario time and again. A winger or fullback caught 10 metres out from his goal line, someone hurries into dummy half. Either he runs or he passes it to the ONLY other guy within cooee. You must have seen that a thousand times. What does the defence have? Yep, a set defensive line, ready to smash the only guy who can get the ball. So, where's the advantage of a fast ptb? In my opinion far far more can be gained by the first tackle/ ptb being slow so as to enable options on tackle 3/4/5. It gives us time to have a breather, get some big bodies onside and ready to run and more targets for the dummy half to find. The defence already has the advantage, why play like madmen just to give them the ball back as quickly as possible? [/QUOTE]

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