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Spring Tour:New Zealand vs Ireland - 1st Test. (09/06/2012, 08:35 GMT)
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<blockquote data-quote="smartcooky" data-source="post: 509912" data-attributes="member: 20605"><p>Well if Nonu is supposed to be the best 12 in NZ at this time, I have yet to see any evidence of it THIS season.</p><p></p><p>Every pundit I read says that SBW is the leading No. 12, but I guess they don't mean much. After all, they live & breath rugby, and do so for a living, so what would they know?</p><p></p><p>I also disagree with the comments that SBW is some sort of "brain fart" waiting to happen. That is at complete variance with what Steve Hansen, Wayne Smith, and Dave Rennie say about him. They say he is intelligent and reads the game well.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Last season, that might have been true; he was trying it every second or third time he was tackled. This season not so. If you follow what the Chiefs and AB coaches have been saying, they have trained him to choose those moments more carefully, and as a result, the number of offload attempts have gone down, and the success rate has gone up.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Again, if you have been following what the coaches have said in their interviews, that is what he has been told to do. Ian Jones actually explained it well with his after match stats and graphics section on Saturday night. They started off by having SBW taking the ball to the line. This had the effect of drawing players to him like flies to a honey-pot, creating spaces in the outside. Once the opposition are encouraged to to do this, suddenly he lets go a wide pass after drawing defenders to him, creating an overlap. The first time he did that, it nearly created a try that was only bombed when Dagg made a break and let the pass to Guildford go fractionally early.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smartcooky, post: 509912, member: 20605"] Well if Nonu is supposed to be the best 12 in NZ at this time, I have yet to see any evidence of it THIS season. Every pundit I read says that SBW is the leading No. 12, but I guess they don't mean much. After all, they live & breath rugby, and do so for a living, so what would they know? I also disagree with the comments that SBW is some sort of "brain fart" waiting to happen. That is at complete variance with what Steve Hansen, Wayne Smith, and Dave Rennie say about him. They say he is intelligent and reads the game well. Last season, that might have been true; he was trying it every second or third time he was tackled. This season not so. If you follow what the Chiefs and AB coaches have been saying, they have trained him to choose those moments more carefully, and as a result, the number of offload attempts have gone down, and the success rate has gone up. Again, if you have been following what the coaches have said in their interviews, that is what he has been told to do. Ian Jones actually explained it well with his after match stats and graphics section on Saturday night. They started off by having SBW taking the ball to the line. This had the effect of drawing players to him like flies to a honey-pot, creating spaces in the outside. Once the opposition are encouraged to to do this, suddenly he lets go a wide pass after drawing defenders to him, creating an overlap. The first time he did that, it nearly created a try that was only bombed when Dagg made a break and let the pass to Guildford go fractionally early. [/QUOTE]
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