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Message: [QUOTE="Morkel, post: 2745938, member: 8215"] This. It took me a few games to come around, but I'm getting used to it. It might look like we're playing shit, but in actual fact we're just playing the percentages, getting good time in possession, in order to wear the opposition down. Rewind to 2012 - 2013, **** it looked hard to score tries. It was depressing as a fan. Whenever we were in the opposition 20 we'd actually look quite adventurous, moving the ball around, poking our noses through, but just couldn't get the ball over the line. Then we'd drop the ball and have 2 quick tries scored on us. It's all down to forward play, and having the halfback and hooker direct the forwards where needed to wear down links in the defensive line. We weren't doing this back then, despite having an international-quality pack. We'd use up all our energy trying to score tries against a defensive line that had not been fatigued, leaving us brittle when the ball was in the opposition's hands. Now we seem much better at targeting defensive frailties, wearing them down. So that when the opportunities arise, it looks almost effortless to cut through and score. In reality it's been a slow game of chess, where it looks like we're just going through the motions, but in fact we've just been setting up our pieces and manipulating the opposition's. [/QUOTE]

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