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Message: [QUOTE="Morkel, post: 3495315, member: 8215"] For me it is the field position / possession / fatigue. For the last couple of years we've been smashed with 6-agains & penalties, our opposition has been easily able to wear us down and have good field position and we suffered for it (except for, as we saw, our winning streak last year). This year our defence has been notably better, particularly in first contact, so we are reducing opposition momentum through our own efforts. But we are also not getting pinged mercilessly for things that happen 50 times in a game, so it allows us to keep pressure on in defence and not get fatigued and run over. I also think that we aren't having to ruck it out as hard and often as we are used to - our opposition is getting pinged for leaving early or slowing down rucks. Which is why we aren't missing Oates as much as I expected. Arthars is doing an amazing job as backup, but if we get back to a position where the opposition is able to repeatedly belt us on our own line, he's not going to have the same relieving runs that an Oates can do, and has done for his whole career, where he uses his size to get between defenders, drag them for an extra 10, find his front and get a quick PTB (and earn a penalty if the opposition try to impede his PTB). [/QUOTE]

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