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<blockquote data-quote="Gay-Guy" data-source="post: 167213"><p>Forward pass is debatable - marginal in my view, given Traille was stopped in his tracks as he offloaded - but the first try must have been the first time in years the ABs were ripped apart and left strewn all over the field from one touchline to the other. Some credit to your opponents please, Mr Bok lover.</p><p>[/b]</p></blockquote><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>It was a forward pass. However that was not why the try was scored. The try was scored because no one in the AB team gave the correct calls to mark up properly. There was nobody thinking on how to defend the French movement. Carter who was leadership lacking was off the field, Evans was a deputy so was taking orders from Mils who was a makeshift centre taking the senior role in this defensive pattern because MacAlister was inexperienced in comparison and had shown himself to be unreliable in Australia earlier this year. MacCaw was buried on the openside of the scrum and Leonard the halfback was not confident enough to look beyond getting the best of his opposite in front of him.</p><p></p><p>What we had was this...a midfield scrum. There are two French players on the blindside who are marked up correctly by MacAlister and Rocokoco so we have an even two on two there. You will see on the video that the ball goes to the back of the scrum and that Michalek tries to time his backdoor run from the open to the blindside to get a three on two overlap. However the French scrum is slow getting the ball out and Michalek's little surprise becomes a non event as he joins the bindside but there is no ball passed out to him. So you would think the NZ defence would look up and say "Hey look, get someone onto Michalek on the blindside". Instead the video shows Mils following an obvious TEAM PATTERN and holding his position on the openside. Logic says that NZ must be employing Brendon Leonard to check his halfback to force the halfback to pass and then try and make ground (hopefully with Collins supporting) drifting out on the blind to run down Michalak. This is where Leonard makes the mistake of getting sucked around to the back of the French scrum as the French halfback does not pass the ball out yet waits for Leonard to commit to him. An intelligent general would have seen that Leonard was engaged with the French scrum and told Jerry and Rodney to break and run for their lives after Michalak as soon as the ball is out....BUT NO ONE DOES...there is no leadership and direction for Jerry and Rodney who keep pushing rather than breaking at the moment of the pass. You will see on the video that the French halfback realises that Leonard is caught with him and won't cover the extra man on the blindside (Michalak) so he immediately passes out to the blind. You can see Leonard almost looks resigned to defeat when he realises he should be covering the first reciever on the blind (not Michalak but the other French guy as Michalak goes to second reciever on the blind - an attacking role) and tries his best to make up the ground. MacAlister tries to hang off the marking the tackle on the first reciever (he is wary of Michalaks presence and what he can do if he recieves the pass) and only goes back in to make the tackle when it all seems too late....however BANG...the ball is offloaded to Michalak who leaves Evans (the cover defence from the openside) a trail to follow...draws the NZ defence going for him.....passes to the French wing who is unmarked and scores.</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>All through this movement there was NO TACTICAL LEADERSHIP on defence....the AB's should have realised when Michalek made his run to the blindside to call Leonard to keep an eye on the blind and leave Jerry and Rodney to follow any halfback or No8 blindside run. No one did....in fact the whole game had instances of no one taking control with LEADING the team. The AB's were at one point up on the scoreboard and incredibly winning all their lineouts and and stealing or disrupting the French throw. Any decent leader would have said "We need to play the territory game. Kick it out deep in their territory and we have the edge in this game at lineout time so we will try and disrupt them. We are ahead on the scoreboard so they have to make the next move...lets make sure the possession they have to make their moves is when they are in their half". Instead the dumb AB's carry on with their predetermined plan and kick for distance KEEPING THE BALL IN PLAY! Anyone can tell you that when you are behind on the scoreboard and you are given free possession it does not matter where you are on the field you will use it cos you are playing catch up. The French used it, grew in confidence....and got back into the game. NZ did not close out a game they should have won because no one on the field was thinking.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="Gay-Guy, post: 167213"] Forward pass is debatable - marginal in my view, given Traille was stopped in his tracks as he offloaded - but the first try must have been the first time in years the ABs were ripped apart and left strewn all over the field from one touchline to the other. Some credit to your opponents please, Mr Bok lover. [/b][/quote] It was a forward pass. However that was not why the try was scored. The try was scored because no one in the AB team gave the correct calls to mark up properly. There was nobody thinking on how to defend the French movement. Carter who was leadership lacking was off the field, Evans was a deputy so was taking orders from Mils who was a makeshift centre taking the senior role in this defensive pattern because MacAlister was inexperienced in comparison and had shown himself to be unreliable in Australia earlier this year. MacCaw was buried on the openside of the scrum and Leonard the halfback was not confident enough to look beyond getting the best of his opposite in front of him. What we had was this...a midfield scrum. There are two French players on the blindside who are marked up correctly by MacAlister and Rocokoco so we have an even two on two there. You will see on the video that the ball goes to the back of the scrum and that Michalek tries to time his backdoor run from the open to the blindside to get a three on two overlap. However the French scrum is slow getting the ball out and Michalek's little surprise becomes a non event as he joins the bindside but there is no ball passed out to him. So you would think the NZ defence would look up and say "Hey look, get someone onto Michalek on the blindside". Instead the video shows Mils following an obvious TEAM PATTERN and holding his position on the openside. Logic says that NZ must be employing Brendon Leonard to check his halfback to force the halfback to pass and then try and make ground (hopefully with Collins supporting) drifting out on the blind to run down Michalak. This is where Leonard makes the mistake of getting sucked around to the back of the French scrum as the French halfback does not pass the ball out yet waits for Leonard to commit to him. An intelligent general would have seen that Leonard was engaged with the French scrum and told Jerry and Rodney to break and run for their lives after Michalak as soon as the ball is out....BUT NO ONE DOES...there is no leadership and direction for Jerry and Rodney who keep pushing rather than breaking at the moment of the pass. You will see on the video that the French halfback realises that Leonard is caught with him and won't cover the extra man on the blindside (Michalak) so he immediately passes out to the blind. You can see Leonard almost looks resigned to defeat when he realises he should be covering the first reciever on the blind (not Michalak but the other French guy as Michalak goes to second reciever on the blind - an attacking role) and tries his best to make up the ground. MacAlister tries to hang off the marking the tackle on the first reciever (he is wary of Michalaks presence and what he can do if he recieves the pass) and only goes back in to make the tackle when it all seems too late....however BANG...the ball is offloaded to Michalak who leaves Evans (the cover defence from the openside) a trail to follow...draws the NZ defence going for him.....passes to the French wing who is unmarked and scores. All through this movement there was NO TACTICAL LEADERSHIP on defence....the AB's should have realised when Michalek made his run to the blindside to call Leonard to keep an eye on the blind and leave Jerry and Rodney to follow any halfback or No8 blindside run. No one did....in fact the whole game had instances of no one taking control with LEADING the team. The AB's were at one point up on the scoreboard and incredibly winning all their lineouts and and stealing or disrupting the French throw. Any decent leader would have said "We need to play the territory game. Kick it out deep in their territory and we have the edge in this game at lineout time so we will try and disrupt them. We are ahead on the scoreboard so they have to make the next move...lets make sure the possession they have to make their moves is when they are in their half". Instead the dumb AB's carry on with their predetermined plan and kick for distance KEEPING THE BALL IN PLAY! Anyone can tell you that when you are behind on the scoreboard and you are given free possession it does not matter where you are on the field you will use it cos you are playing catch up. The French used it, grew in confidence....and got back into the game. NZ did not close out a game they should have won because no one on the field was thinking. [/QUOTE]
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