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I've found it interesting watching how English clubs play compared to particularly the Pro 14 and how the English team has played compared to Ireland and Scotland. It seems we are stuck in a old mentality of one out passes to forwards hoping to bash our way over the gain line before releasing the backs, regardless of if there is already space our wide to be exploited. It seems the national team and many clubs are stuck just going through the motions and seem overcoached, they stick to the script and don't play heads up rugby.
It also seems that the way the laws are being applied now and the way the game is naturally going, this style of rugby is being left in the past in the same way Warrenball was. The blitz defence is being found out by passes out the back to backs running at speed hitting the dog legs or going wide. When a blitz rushes up but doesn't meet a player with the ball, it becomes very ineffective as the player is just left standing in no mans land with no proper defence formed up. It's a defence designed to counter the style of play used by England and English clubs where you expect one out passes to forwards running into contact.
So do people think English rugby as a whole is getting stuck in the past and still clinging too much to 10 man stuff it up the jumper play and "right to go wide" or are there other reasons beyond fatigue for the drastic decline in English rugby at both club and country level in the last year or 2?
It also seems that the way the laws are being applied now and the way the game is naturally going, this style of rugby is being left in the past in the same way Warrenball was. The blitz defence is being found out by passes out the back to backs running at speed hitting the dog legs or going wide. When a blitz rushes up but doesn't meet a player with the ball, it becomes very ineffective as the player is just left standing in no mans land with no proper defence formed up. It's a defence designed to counter the style of play used by England and English clubs where you expect one out passes to forwards running into contact.
So do people think English rugby as a whole is getting stuck in the past and still clinging too much to 10 man stuff it up the jumper play and "right to go wide" or are there other reasons beyond fatigue for the drastic decline in English rugby at both club and country level in the last year or 2?