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Message: [QUOTE="badyon, post: 2918167, member: 8541"] Teams need to start going for the 6 points rather than 2 against this style of defence. Roosters played a similar style of defence when they last won the comp. They were the number one penalised team in the comp, yet were the dominant team all year. And the other teams let them get away with it. If there is one thing WB/Boyd absolutely don't get right, it is their maths on : 1) when to take the tap (both in terms of stage of game, and momentum) and 2) at what point-differential to take the tap. It was bizarre watching Smith taking penalties against a 12 man side, late in the game. The thinking, at present, is a) 75% for a 2 (1.5 points total gain) is better than b) 20% for a 5 (average of conversion rate plus red zone strike rate) (1 point total gain). It also doesn't take into consideration the improved strike rate at the back end of halves when the opposition is up against a repeat set. Nor the psychological consideration of going up by 6. Benji's penalty late in the game was deliberate, and he should have been binned as well. The tigers were over the moon when Smith took the kick after it. [/QUOTE]

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