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Message: [QUOTE="Morkel, post: 2703857, member: 8215"] The same way that getting repeat sets often results in points - it's not because you simply have more plays, but because each one wears out the defenders. It always looks fluid to a spectator, like everyone is on their toes and at peak speed, but it's far from the case. The forwards in particular are buggered, up & back, up & back. Each movement off the line gets a tenth slower than the last one, each effort to wrap up the ball sucks up more energy. If you can be as fresh as possible when defending your line, it makes a massive difference, and that's what the "wait for the runner" achieves. Each metre they don't move up, is actually two metres saved. If they concede one metre more per play, it's therefore two metres less for the defensive line. Concede 10 metres more in a set and it's 20 metres saved. The proof is in the pudding I guess. [/QUOTE]

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