Re: Advice To Scotland


"The Green Phantom" <ask@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Not that they'll take it - and what do I know anyway?
>
> 1. And I never thought I'd say something like this - bring back Telfer,
> but only to make the forwards aware of what they have to do. Get them
> lower and get them doing it over and over again on the training pitch
> until they understand and do it as second nature. Maybe drives will
> become more effective.
>
> 2. The same for the backs. They check all the bloody time. They enter
> every contact upright instead of low and charging. They're going to get
> tackled anyway so why not give themselves a chance of breaking through?
>
> 3. Stop slowing the ball The backs have time to write a letter to Santa
> 'Dear Santa, please let me have a rugby ball for Christmas that isn't
> attached to a bloody big thumping tackler...'
>
> 4. Get some centres who can run from left to right and not just right to
> left. A sidestep might be useful too.
>
> 5. Issue contact lenses to the team that show them where gaps are. They
> do something like this with battery hens and eggs drop into place as a
> result. Time and time again it seems like the backs and forwards are only
> interested in contact. I know it comes with the territory but try and
> avoid it now and then eh?
>
> 6. Drop Lamont until he has completed his correspondence course 'How To
> Pass a Rugby Ball'. Also drop the hacks who announce his games with the
> fervour of a second coming.
>

I think you're being a bit harsh on Lamont. He's the only back who seems to
have completed the 'which way to the try line' course. It was rather a
relief when the ball was swung out to either Lamont because the midfield had
the hot potato approach, often recieving the ball while stationary, going
backwards and then dropping it. You congratulated Paterson in an earlier
thread but he and the Lamonts were the only ones getting any success with
similar type runs. Forcing him to pass would be a bit daft, rather force the
rest of them to catch up and stop him being isolated.

> 7. Drop Hadden - until he twigs that the Edinburgh game of 'play it wide'
> doesn't work unless everything else is right. There have to be other
> strategies available that don't drive the OC, wing and FB into touch.
>

It's kamikazee stuff alright and the AB's have no doubt a sweep going on the
first player to dot down a hat-trick.

> Do you get the idea that I'm sick of Scottish International Rugby? Sorry.
>

I feel your pain.

Spizz


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