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Message: [QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 3148882, member: 9052"] It's their defence that is helping with that though. The forwards exert their energy through fast line speed... this causes the opposition to kick off the back foot deep inside their half. Gutho catches on the full and sprints it back. Tackle one is about 30m out from their goal line whereas the defence were probably at the opposition 40m or the 50m line. Tackles 2 & 3 are taken from Fergo, Sivo, etc. and by tackle 3 or 4 it's back to the 50m line and the forwards have only walked about 10-20m to get their energy back. It's pretty stock standard sort of play. What is letting us down is conceding 60m sets which allows the opposition to put up attacking kicks within our half and trap us in the corner... our outside backs are then getting pummeled on tackles 1, 2 and 3, and by tackle 4 we're lucky to be at the 30m line and having to kick from deep inside our own half off the back foot. Rinse and repeat until we concede a try. Rugby in any sort of format (league or union) is all about field position and our lack of energy in defence means we have zero. [/QUOTE]

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