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Message: [QUOTE="Huge, post: 2948539, member: 1992"] Depending on the set you wrote and I agree, all too often the first 3 to 4 hitups are by guys who shouldn't really have to. I made a suggestion a few times in the past about forwards dawdling back towards the ruck after the balls been kicked through. I see it time and again, a lost opportunity that no one seems to have identified. Your fullback or winger hits it up, usually stopped dead by a gang tackle, the next hitup, either fullback or other winger hits it up and is easily smashed as he's usually the marker or the one and only other player in sight. Meanwhile your forwards are still strolling back, hands on hips and this happens on the first set of the game ! It just gets worse and takes longer as the game wears on. Why the hell are we letting this happen ? Why not have the first tackled player waste time by taking an age to get up while simultaneously demanding our forwards run their arses flat out back on side ? Then after the second slow ptb by the other winger or fullback we'd have a hard charging forward(s) ready for third, fourth and fifth tackle options. It's bullshit to suggest that lone fullbacks or wingers, facing set defences can make big gains and run people onside, it just doesn't happen generally. Most of the time the first decent hitup with options to pass or offload etc happen on the fourth or fifth. We keep cheating ourselves trying to play this uptempo bullshit which is totally counterproductive as it plays directly into the set defences greatest strength, the fact they don't have to make a decision on who to take out. [/QUOTE]

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