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Message: [QUOTE="Morkel, post: 2915291, member: 8215"] ****, ****, **** guys. Can we just stop this bullshit? It's right up there with crying about how Milford and Nikorima looked so shit, while completely ignoring the fact our pack was thoroughly beaten and had no room, no time, and no opportunities to put anything together. You know why the above "just spread it wider" doesn't work? For the same reason that teams simply have to cart the ball one-out sometimes, despite it not looking very exciting. We already have the defence in our faces. Every pass not only has to go backwards, but takes time to do so, so the moment the eventual runner has the ball the defence will already be all over them. The best way to make tough metres is a single well-timed pass to a running forward, in tight. End of. The times that teams [I]have[/I] spread it out wide quickly and managed to get around the opposition is when the defence has overly compressed to swarm in, leaving room out wide. If the runners are on the back foot, the defence doesn't need to compress, therefore there are no spaces out wide. Spreading it ends in lost territory, or worse, errors because the runners are trying to catch the ball with the defence already there. Get the forward to time their run, receive the ball tight in, tuck it under and do whatever it takes to get on your elbows and knees fast and fight like crazy for a quick PTB. Also, the calls to drop the experienced players and throw the youth in there. Again, think about it. Use TPJ as an example. Great carries with the ball, offloads were great. But how was he on the other side of the ball? He gave away two of those killer off-side penalties right when it hurt us the most. But most telling was his shit-house defence for JDB's try. **** knows what he was trying to do, whether it was trying to rip the ball out, but a seasoned-first grader knows that if a team-mate already has the player low, you wrap that fucking ball up like it's a live grenade. Don't try to steal it, don't try to outmuscle the ball-runner, cling on to that bitch and make sure you get between the ball and the ground at all costs. It's these issues that are characteristic of young, talented, but inexperienced players, that cost you big time when the game is on the line. If we can hold on to the ball, and get some of the home-town advantage that the Dragons got in being allowed to hold down the opposition in the ruck, we'll hold our own against the Cows. [/QUOTE]

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