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<blockquote data-quote="ratsapprentice" data-source="post: 644610" data-attributes="member: 67273"><p>Average number of tries scored is not a very good indicator of "good" rugby.</p><p></p><p>There were 22 tries scored in the Australia vs Namibia game in the 2003 RWC - one of two games in that tournament where a side scored more than 100 points and among several other very high scores.</p><p>Were they good games? **** no - a high number of tries is usually down to a deficient defence as much as it is down to an efficient attack.</p><p>You want to see proficiency in all areas, not just attack - as teams learn to defend more efficiently the laws of the game will change to redress the balance.</p><p>I'd expect the laws surrounding mauling to be altered slightly in the near future to account for the rise in choke tackles, for example.</p><p></p><p>The sport in Australia is in bad financial shape because of dreadful mismanagement in a highly competitive sporting environment. Experimental laws in domestic competitions are nothing new - they have been doing it in SA for years, and the sport is hardly "dying" there, is it? Confirmation bias on your part.</p><p></p><p>The French national team is playing badly because there is a clear coaching/management issue (as ever) and their players are disadvantaged by an exceptionally brutal calendar.</p><p></p><p>I find the fact that you use both Australia and France as examples of the sport's supposed bad health strange as you suggest that the game in it's current form is objectively boring and that it is causing the game to "die" in Australia, yet the sport is growing exponentially in France. Those are market forces at work my friend, not the result of a changing game.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ratsapprentice, post: 644610, member: 67273"] Average number of tries scored is not a very good indicator of "good" rugby. There were 22 tries scored in the Australia vs Namibia game in the 2003 RWC - one of two games in that tournament where a side scored more than 100 points and among several other very high scores. Were they good games? **** no - a high number of tries is usually down to a deficient defence as much as it is down to an efficient attack. You want to see proficiency in all areas, not just attack - as teams learn to defend more efficiently the laws of the game will change to redress the balance. I'd expect the laws surrounding mauling to be altered slightly in the near future to account for the rise in choke tackles, for example. The sport in Australia is in bad financial shape because of dreadful mismanagement in a highly competitive sporting environment. Experimental laws in domestic competitions are nothing new - they have been doing it in SA for years, and the sport is hardly "dying" there, is it? Confirmation bias on your part. The French national team is playing badly because there is a clear coaching/management issue (as ever) and their players are disadvantaged by an exceptionally brutal calendar. I find the fact that you use both Australia and France as examples of the sport's supposed bad health strange as you suggest that the game in it's current form is objectively boring and that it is causing the game to "die" in Australia, yet the sport is growing exponentially in France. Those are market forces at work my friend, not the result of a changing game. [/QUOTE]
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