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<blockquote data-quote="Gay-Guy" data-source="post: 167225"><p>MaCaw's job is the same job all AB captains have had for years. Coin toss, talk to the ref, spur his troops on, talk to the press, etc. Captains are generally not the thinking type when it came to tactics....that job belongs to the first fives. McCaw does not have a tactical rugby brain...he is simply a very good scavenger on the ground and mainly plays what is in front of him.</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>The French had nothing to lose in so much as their fans expected a defeat, they had lost to Argentina, they were playing away from their fans in a foreign country, the AB's looked better allround and man for him were a better team, the AB's had beaten them every time for a few years and some of those defeats were heavy. So if the French had lost it would not have been seen as a huge tragedy as they were not really expected to win that game. Their victory was heralded as a huge upset....similar to the English victory being proclaimed as a shock win over the Aussies. </p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>Yep.....the brains trust in our backline had vanished. Though Henry did not invest in having the boys think for themselves at AB level...it was almost like the culture in the AB team was that they fervently do a job following the game plan from the stands.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gay-Guy, post: 167225"] MaCaw's job is the same job all AB captains have had for years. Coin toss, talk to the ref, spur his troops on, talk to the press, etc. Captains are generally not the thinking type when it came to tactics....that job belongs to the first fives. McCaw does not have a tactical rugby brain...he is simply a very good scavenger on the ground and mainly plays what is in front of him. The French had nothing to lose in so much as their fans expected a defeat, they had lost to Argentina, they were playing away from their fans in a foreign country, the AB's looked better allround and man for him were a better team, the AB's had beaten them every time for a few years and some of those defeats were heavy. So if the French had lost it would not have been seen as a huge tragedy as they were not really expected to win that game. Their victory was heralded as a huge upset....similar to the English victory being proclaimed as a shock win over the Aussies. Yep.....the brains trust in our backline had vanished. Though Henry did not invest in having the boys think for themselves at AB level...it was almost like the culture in the AB team was that they fervently do a job following the game plan from the stands. [/QUOTE]
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