bazzaj wrote:Dave wrote:The only question this week can be about the defence and the DoR defence coach. The defence has been awful for two seasons or more.
Is it time to ditch the drift?
We had hendy last week in a wide channel drifting. Our most powerful forward drifting across the pitch, FFS. Result: gets stepped and they score an easy try.
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&sourc ... EtV6nkoy9k. One of the best articles to read concerning defence.
We should nail it to the Ulster changing room door.
Consider that they were considered underdogs then and where the two teams are now.
That is excellent Baz! This passage should be nailed to FOLK's face:
"Especially if they buy into the idea that a “fast line speed covers a multitude of sins”. It is one of Paul’s favourite lines.
Move up slowly and the opposition can dominate contact, can manufacture space. React with a fast line speed and a defence can consume an attack.
This matters because very few players are perfect tacklers on their own. They will eventually make a mistake.
A quick run-through of the Saracens back line show this to be true: Alex Goode can get stepped and beaten for pace; Dave Strettle often resembles a basketball player coming in for an intercept; Chris Ashton gets bumped and bullied; Owen Farrell goes in very upright; Richard Wigglesworth over-commits and loses his centre of gravity.
The exception to the rule is Brad Barritt, but he is a freak – and even he will do something wrong at some point. S
o why allow one person to be isolated? Why give one player too much to do? With the wolf pack you do not have to and it allows weaknesses to be covered up and is the best way with a team, erased by a committed and unified effort."
