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Message: [QUOTE="mick, post: 2118734, member: 1794"] It's just a cycle really, as Rocky said. 2002 saw the gang tackle era come along. The Roosters were the first to do it, best exponents of it and it won them the game. That era hung around for a few years, before we saw coaches then focus on young, fast and talented ball players in the backline to nullify that defence. The Wests Tigers and Cowboys made the GF in 2005 solely on the back of their ability to exploit fast moving and packed defensive lines with their little fellas. But that in itself prompted the rise in prominence of the smaller fullback/wingers, so coaches have implement kicking across field to bigger blokes who can jump, and defend well on the edges, to beat that. It's just tactics... they go around and around and around and I'm sure things will be very different in 2-3 years yet again. [/QUOTE]

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