Neil Kelly's Defensive attack!!

Rooster · Post by **Rooster** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 8:24 pm

rocky wrote:Really looking forward to seeing Bestie at 6 and McMillen at 7, too.

You are not the only one waiting for this Rocky

Freddie Benson · Post by **Freddie Benson** » Fri Aug 26, 2005 9:30 am

cjp wrote: the good aul big fight live on a Friday which there hasn't been since Mark Blair which should get the crowd going and hopefully the good old ravenhill roar back.

I think you doing Neil Best a hell of a disservice there. He could in a fight in the back of a taxi.........hang on he DID get in a fight in the back of a taxi.

I do share some of your concerns. This season it looks we will have a lineout that will give us parity of possession at least. Even 2 seasons ago, the lineout was poor but we got to 2nd in CL by excellent defence and scoring tries with the little possession we did have. Last season we had neither of those. I do believe (it's the Guiness

) that we have the talent in the back line (Steinmetz, Trimble, Bowe, Cunningham etc) to score tries. NZ and SA are showing that it's a fallacy that you can't score of first phase ball - if you have pace, power and handling skills it is eminently achievable.

Freddie Benson · Post by **Freddie Benson** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 6:21 pm

Looking forward to the URSC event with Neil Kelly tonight at Ravers - 8pm if you can get along.
(Think there's a football match on somewhere though as well, is that right?

)

I note that Justin Fitzpatrick and Keiran Campbell are slated to appear - the pair of them were spotted at lunchtime today on the Lisburn Road - perhaps putting their case for the defence together

Rooster · Post by **Rooster** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 6:25 pm

Fitzy's main defensive attributes are , if he's near enough flatten him

colinh · Post by **colinh** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 6:29 pm

I do believe (it's the Guiness ) that we have the talent in the back line (Steinmetz, Trimble, Bowe, Cunningham etc) to score tries. NZ and SA are showing that it's a fallacy that you can't score of first phase ball - if you have pace, power and handling skills it is eminently achievable.

We have scored some very good tries of line out (best attacking flatform there is) ball such as Paddy Wallace's try against Stade Francais the season before last.

Colin

Freddie Benson · Post by **Freddie Benson** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 4:10 pm

NZ are doing it two or three times a game not every other season.

Tries I'm talking about. OOerr missus