Rugby Union World Cup 2019

[hammocity]

Following on BM and if we get in front will put the TV on, don’t need the stress of shouting at the Telly for a game I take an interest in once every four years.

 

[fredmont]

Following on BM and if we get in front will put the TV on, don’t need the stress of shouting at the Telly for a game I take an interest in once every four years.

Great 7 points to England

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

As long as we’re within 10 points in last 15, it’ll all come right.

 

[Metal Biker]

Was he just imagining holding the cup?

 

[Wretched Vengeance]

But you can’t just do it once after giving most of the defenders a rest while they all stand around and let eight men defend a five metre space.

That’s where you have to play with variation to the space and field position in a lateral sense. Draw in defenders to one area and then move the ball, you have do this a few times and that opens up holes in the defensive line. After you’ve drawn in three players to the open side, then go back to the blind side to draw in two, then play a shift and try and create an overlap of a spare man on one of the sides to the ruck...

That’s the top and bottom of what rugby is all about. It’s not about defence, it’s not about individual or even team skill, it’s about exploiting space.

Rugby League understands this far and away better than Union does.

If you do all this and still can’t get over the line, then fair fuck’s to the defence! But far too often in Union the defence is not really tested and shifted enough.

I reckon if they could go back, they'd carry on doing what they were doing - trying to bludgeon their way through. Going wide, in that instance, was a mistake. Jonny Wilkinson explained it at HT better than I can :)

 

[KS55]

This is the biggest thing I don’t get about Union; why keep trudging and trudging into the same packed defence no more than three metres away from where you last trudged in, close to the line, when there are a stream of players called backs waiting for the ball to come out?

The backs may as well sit down with their legs’ crossed and wait until the forwards bore everyone to death and make a mistake or live in the hope they might eventually trudge over the line.

PLAY SOME RUGBY! AND GET THE BALL OUT TO WHERE THE SPACES ARE!

All forms of football (association, both codes of rugby, Aussie rules, Gaelic, gridiron...) are all about exploiting space, not just just try and force your way through eight squashed in defenders from three metres out.

Jiffy said when he went back to Union that he forgot that you could get cold playing rugby, and I can see why he said it.

They are not trudging! That's 18 stone of beef hurling itself at the defence. The idea is, apart from the possibility of a score, to tire the opposition forwards so they can't get about the pitch later in the game.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

They are not trudging! That's 18 stone of beef hurling itself at the defence. The idea is, apart from the possibility of a score, to tire the opposition forwards so they can't get about the pitch later in the game.

But they take them all off and replace them with fresh legs later in the game.

Like now, England tried to tire out three men in the first half who’ve now gone off!

 

[Blue Maverick]

Someone needs to twat that long blonde haired prick

 

[hammocity]

Great 7 points to England

Hopefully

 

[Wretched Vengeance]

England are being destroyed in the scrum.