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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (wairarapa_cullen @ Oct 14 2008, 07:45 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>
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Excellent breakdown gay-guy, never knew that.
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Haha...well I have been studying and creating backline moves for years....I remember this one clearly because I could see that the Wallaby number 12 "counted" correctly and wondered why did he not make the tackle? It was only because he had pre determined that Lomu was the real move that he got caught flat and responded a milisecond too slow on Umaga.
Australia have actually had good backline moves and as a result they often read our ones quite easily. We were lucky in those days that we had great individuals that would still break through the most organised defence. I remember in 1995 in Australia Jeff Wilson scored in the corner...however leading up to his try the Wallabies marked the AB's perfectly when they ran a move with Bunce coming in from centre as a decoy cutting in behind Merhts. Merhts goes to pass to him but Bunce is a decoy as it is actually going to Lomu who is chasing Merhts run from the blindside wing. Walter Little drifts out wider to make it look like he is the decoy so the Aussies will think Bunce is not the decoy but the real move. However the Wallabies read the move perfectly and know that Little and Bunce were BOTH decoys and that the real runner is Lomu...so they have a guy waiting for him.....game over. The only problem is that the guy marking Lomu got brushed aside and two passes later Wilson is in the corner.
The number 12 in your video above despite getting schooled did chase all the way to get a close up view of Cullen scoring.
This was a try that was based off a Crusaders move which the Wallabies knew quite well. So when the AB's went into this move the Wallabies expected Lomu to carry on cutting back in. However the addition that the AB's had made to this move was to have Lomu switch the ball to Umaga (the right wing) who would cut back OUT. It is here that the Number 12 for Australia marks the movement perfectly watching the fake maul, Merhtens wrapping around, Lomu cutting in, and Umaga cutting out. However because he did not expect Umaga to cut out again, for a split second his weight is on his left foot when Umaga gets the ball....and it is this split second that gives Umaga that slight edge to get past him.
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Excellent breakdown gay-guy, never knew that.
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Haha...well I have been studying and creating backline moves for years....I remember this one clearly because I could see that the Wallaby number 12 "counted" correctly and wondered why did he not make the tackle? It was only because he had pre determined that Lomu was the real move that he got caught flat and responded a milisecond too slow on Umaga.
Australia have actually had good backline moves and as a result they often read our ones quite easily. We were lucky in those days that we had great individuals that would still break through the most organised defence. I remember in 1995 in Australia Jeff Wilson scored in the corner...however leading up to his try the Wallabies marked the AB's perfectly when they ran a move with Bunce coming in from centre as a decoy cutting in behind Merhts. Merhts goes to pass to him but Bunce is a decoy as it is actually going to Lomu who is chasing Merhts run from the blindside wing. Walter Little drifts out wider to make it look like he is the decoy so the Aussies will think Bunce is not the decoy but the real move. However the Wallabies read the move perfectly and know that Little and Bunce were BOTH decoys and that the real runner is Lomu...so they have a guy waiting for him.....game over. The only problem is that the guy marking Lomu got brushed aside and two passes later Wilson is in the corner.
The number 12 in your video above despite getting schooled did chase all the way to get a close up view of Cullen scoring.
