Flair with Functionality: The Wallabies can find inspiration in a French kicking masterclass
No one thinks French is rugby boring. Their current team has all the flair of the famous Les Bleus sides with a newfound consistency…
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Sorry not talking about penalty volume I’m talking about how they look in the flow of a game. The Brumbies while they did not concede that many overall, in matches most of the time conceded more than their opponent. There are a few structural reasons why the Brumbies games tended to have fewer penalties all round but my point is more you’d rather a game where you concede 10 penalties and your opponent concedes 15 than one where you concede 8 and they concede 3. Essentially the Brumbies played in low penalty games but had a negative penalty differential.
Flair with Functionality: The Wallabies can find inspiration in a French kicking masterclass
Overall point is well made but that Brumbies stat is misleading. The Brumbies only conceded few penalties than their opponents in 6/16 games. Much like the Crusaders, the Brumbies often lose penalty counts but feel like they have won them. They have a great set-piece and so often choose to concede penalties rather than have them forced upon them (A perception thing the Wallabies struggle with is that they are always have refs thinking they can’t handle pressure).
Flair with Functionality: The Wallabies can find inspiration in a French kicking masterclass
Discipline is always an interesting term because I don’t think that you can just tell teams to be more disciplined and improve performance. Rugby is based on physical dominance and so teams don’t want to concede physical dominance on any occasion even at the expense of rule following.
In international rugby what we consider ‘discipline’ is essentially the result of accuracy in actions and framing to the referee. Many teams concede penalties, All Blacks chief among them, but have created a better narrative around penalties in their 22. Australia needs to work on the framing as well as the accuracy because referees seem to jump to cynical faster for the Wallabies which is what creates the cards.
Flair with Functionality: The Wallabies can find inspiration in a French kicking masterclass
I think thats a good assessment, particularly agree with kick-offs, its another set-piece in the modern game but seems to have so much less clarity in design. I believe our kicking overall is difficult to compare to other countries just because of how little it has been emphasised for a long time.
Flair with Functionality: The Wallabies can find inspiration in a French kicking masterclass
Thanks mate
Flair with Functionality: The Wallabies can find inspiration in a French kicking masterclass
I agree, I believe this is indicating intent more than anything else, although there is also a level of potency that did not exist previously. Rennie’s Wallabies scored 5 tries in the first 10 minutes in his whole tenure (32 games), Eddie has already matched that total in 4.
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Not at the moment. I created the DB myself.
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Thanks!
Of tries scored in the first 3 phases, 64% were from set-piece.
Identity and intent: The anatomy of Super Rugby Pacific attacks
Thanks! Of tries scored in the first 3 phases 64% were from teams set-piece
Identity and intent: The anatomy of Super Rugby Pacific attacks
Hopefully Skelton is the man
Flair with Functionality: The Wallabies can find inspiration in a French kicking masterclass