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<blockquote data-quote="jomjom" data-source="post: 762603" data-attributes="member: 73037"><p>For me the answer is simple. I know I keep mentioning it here but the writing is on the walls for me. Play faster, more attacking rugby. Thats it. Ive said it to my rugby head friends in real life and they all dismissed me saying "We just have different styles... one isnt better than the other... thats not our culture..." etc and all this crap but I feel this WC has proved my point. Remember the last day of this years 6N? Remember how some commentators were saying it was the greatest day in rugby (up this side anyways)? Why was that again? Because the last 3 teams who had a chance of winning on points difference went out and tried to score as many tries as humanely possible and they did just that. Wales and Ireland demolished Italy and Scotland respectively in high intensity fast paced matches and well France vs England if that wasnt the biggest, most entertaining try fest ever between two tier 1 nations then I dont know what will be. All those teams just went balls to the wall attack mode, and it was fantastic.</p><p></p><p>Its time to end kick bish bash rugby. South Africa can pull it off because they do it well and they have the ability to grind out a flairy try if needs be. But on a general level, Ive always treated it with suspicion and I feel justified in having done so. If Wales and/or Scotland had barely scraped their way into the semis lets be honest they would have not fared so well afterwards, and the idea that faster, more skilled rugby is superior to brute force smashing would still be on discussion.</p><p></p><p>I really love Schmidt but I really hope he ditches his conservative box kicking territory game. I hate to say it but I almost feel George Hook is right. Where is that flair that he brought to Leinsters glory!? I want to start playing the way the champs do. I want rugby thats more entertaining, more fluid and more try orientated. Lets be honest apart from the very last day this years 6N was crap and we all know it, everyone was saying it, and everyone was saying because northern rugby was dying in these endless territory ruck battles.</p><p></p><p>I hope the respective unions up north have a long, hard think about why 7 of the 8 world cups are going south of the equator and not resting humbly here in Europe.</p><p></p><p>And Im not saying we need to be carbon copies of southern teams and ok maybe playing style isnt the only factor but I think northern teams definitely need to open up their game more at the very least.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jomjom, post: 762603, member: 73037"] For me the answer is simple. I know I keep mentioning it here but the writing is on the walls for me. Play faster, more attacking rugby. Thats it. Ive said it to my rugby head friends in real life and they all dismissed me saying "We just have different styles... one isnt better than the other... thats not our culture..." etc and all this crap but I feel this WC has proved my point. Remember the last day of this years 6N? Remember how some commentators were saying it was the greatest day in rugby (up this side anyways)? Why was that again? Because the last 3 teams who had a chance of winning on points difference went out and tried to score as many tries as humanely possible and they did just that. Wales and Ireland demolished Italy and Scotland respectively in high intensity fast paced matches and well France vs England if that wasnt the biggest, most entertaining try fest ever between two tier 1 nations then I dont know what will be. All those teams just went balls to the wall attack mode, and it was fantastic. Its time to end kick bish bash rugby. South Africa can pull it off because they do it well and they have the ability to grind out a flairy try if needs be. But on a general level, Ive always treated it with suspicion and I feel justified in having done so. If Wales and/or Scotland had barely scraped their way into the semis lets be honest they would have not fared so well afterwards, and the idea that faster, more skilled rugby is superior to brute force smashing would still be on discussion. I really love Schmidt but I really hope he ditches his conservative box kicking territory game. I hate to say it but I almost feel George Hook is right. Where is that flair that he brought to Leinsters glory!? I want to start playing the way the champs do. I want rugby thats more entertaining, more fluid and more try orientated. Lets be honest apart from the very last day this years 6N was crap and we all know it, everyone was saying it, and everyone was saying because northern rugby was dying in these endless territory ruck battles. I hope the respective unions up north have a long, hard think about why 7 of the 8 world cups are going south of the equator and not resting humbly here in Europe. And Im not saying we need to be carbon copies of southern teams and ok maybe playing style isnt the only factor but I think northern teams definitely need to open up their game more at the very least. [/QUOTE]
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