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Message: [QUOTE="Thelmus, post: 2869312, member: 8988"] Not so much worried about metres per sae but more the bending or breaking of the defensive line. A little more of that and they'd just about be unstoppable. A defense going backwards from a broken or bent line leaves time for ball play and holes as some players rush up and hang back. Its much better to offload in those circumstances than with a set line ala st George (what Gould and Lockyer were going on about). BUT its better to offload successfully with a set line than NOT at all. That's how our attack was stifled earlier in the year, with no go forward and a defence set against us, knowing our forwards would die with the ball in tackles, our poor halves having little more than a cut out pass and some fancy footwork to work with. Our young forwards have now developed the skill to a point where we can use them this way, we'd be crazy to stifle them in the hope their enthusiasm will allow them to beat stronger packs with heavier, stronger forwards well suited to winning arm wrestles, in the case of Melbourne literally. [/QUOTE]

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