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[2016 Super Rugby] Hurricanes vs. Lions (The Final) 06/08/2016
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<blockquote data-quote="SomeOke" data-source="post: 810097" data-attributes="member: 59145"><p>As people have mentioned before from a style perspective modern attacking play can be broken down into three areas: Making use of offloads to keep the ball alive, counterattacking from turn over ball and kicking from hand in an attacking sense.</p><p></p><p>Now I've only been watching rugby for a relatively short amount of time compared to most of the SA posters (About 10 years), but I have to say that in all the time I've been watching rugby I've seen very little evidence of the three things mentioned above. SA teams have typically shunned offloading as a "50/50" play, kick for touch when the ball is turned over in our half because "safety first" and attacking kicks are also usually considered a low percentage play.</p><p></p><p>Yes the Bulls scored plenty of tries when they were winning the competition a while ago, but it was mostly from narrowing the opposition's defensive line through forward brutality and then swinging it wide, a tactic that has proven ineffective in recent years.</p><p></p><p>Honestly I feel like with most coaches in South Africa there is a mentality that running rugby isn't winning rugby, every time a coach tries to run the ball and change tactics, it usually results in a few lost games and they revert back to the tried and tested strategy. In the end I honestly believe a team has to lose a few games (or a lot of games) but be willing to stick with the way they play in order to build up the culture and skill-set required for running rugby. The Hurricanes didn't achieve much success playing running rugby for a couple years but they stuck to their guns and now they have it down to an art, the same goes for the Lions.</p><p></p><p>Basically I feel like coaches need to have the courage to lose a few games and have a few bad seasons in order to breed the running rugby culture into their players, but they are all too afraid of losing to try it in the long term.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SomeOke, post: 810097, member: 59145"] As people have mentioned before from a style perspective modern attacking play can be broken down into three areas: Making use of offloads to keep the ball alive, counterattacking from turn over ball and kicking from hand in an attacking sense. Now I've only been watching rugby for a relatively short amount of time compared to most of the SA posters (About 10 years), but I have to say that in all the time I've been watching rugby I've seen very little evidence of the three things mentioned above. SA teams have typically shunned offloading as a "50/50" play, kick for touch when the ball is turned over in our half because "safety first" and attacking kicks are also usually considered a low percentage play. Yes the Bulls scored plenty of tries when they were winning the competition a while ago, but it was mostly from narrowing the opposition's defensive line through forward brutality and then swinging it wide, a tactic that has proven ineffective in recent years. Honestly I feel like with most coaches in South Africa there is a mentality that running rugby isn't winning rugby, every time a coach tries to run the ball and change tactics, it usually results in a few lost games and they revert back to the tried and tested strategy. In the end I honestly believe a team has to lose a few games (or a lot of games) but be willing to stick with the way they play in order to build up the culture and skill-set required for running rugby. The Hurricanes didn't achieve much success playing running rugby for a couple years but they stuck to their guns and now they have it down to an art, the same goes for the Lions. Basically I feel like coaches need to have the courage to lose a few games and have a few bad seasons in order to breed the running rugby culture into their players, but they are all too afraid of losing to try it in the long term. [/QUOTE]
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