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TheKing
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Absolutely this. They’ve attempted to make him a leader. Attempted to make him a 10. The guy isn’t a pro standard player, give it up. Baldwin left as a result of being further down the pecking order than Hughes, and I’d bet that Asquith is (rightly) miffed too.
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TheKing
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Strange post given the topic at hand. He may be a great kicker (on his day), but he doesn’t hit the line, cut the line and can’t counter. This contributes in no small measure to our lack of potency.
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TheKing
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Looks to me that our guys need to be told absolutely no kicking out of hand in the opposition half for the next couple of games. A real low percentage tactic which we seem to have become obsessed with.
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Wil Chips
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It must have been someone else that joined every structured attack we did, put Steff Evs away for the kick in field and ran for over 100 mts in the game. You and Dic are totally fine to stick to your narrative with Halfpenny. I prefer watching performances. He had a very good game. |
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GPR - Rochester
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I am with you on that one Wil. Defensively Leigh is still the best 15 in the World, he is one of the best, if not the best goalkicker. To criticise his attacking play to justify non selection seems pretty bizarre to me. OK he isn't Jordan Larmour but his instinct is to run the ball back and he is clever at releasing others. 100m gained was probably 70m more than any other Scarlet in that game. It would be interesting to hear who his critics would select especially with Liam & Tomi Lewis both injured. The Scarlets deficiencies in attack are many and varied but Leigh isn't one of them.
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Dic Penderyn
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As G.P.R says our deficiencies in attack are many and varied.It strikes me that three of these are highlighted by the King's three posts
1.A 5/8 who kicks too much-even to the extent of cross-kicking horizontally to the wing-seen on saturday,not for the 1st time 2.A second5/8 who lacks the attributes normally associated with the rôle-most glaringly,a complete lack of pace:on Saturday he was easily picked off by the opposition tight-head,when ambling cross-,field. 3.We are playing without an attacking full-back.Arguably Halfpenny's attributes as a kicker (we were treated to a master-class on saturday)will always merit his inclusion,but Saturday's game showed that we must score tries.I recall the debate in the 80's,concerning the merits of Thorburn and Tony Clement for the Welsh full-back berth-all things being equal,it's a healthy debate to have.Currently,however,we are not scoring tries.We kicked a record nine penalties,but I doubt that our backs would have scored 9 tries against any side,at any level.
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Wil Chips
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1. Where does his highness say that, I might have missed it? I thought he said our coaches applied a tactical approach to where they wanted to kick/not kick from, and that the players obviously followed it. Questionable tactic for the coaches to answer. 2. Steff was a late replacement for Jonny W. Tyler was carrying a small injury and only had 30 mins of rugby. It wasn't an unreasonable selection given that, but the comments suggest he was picked ahead of these guys. Not really. 3. Stuck on transmit re your views on Halfpenny. I'm judging his week on week performance. Good of late. We will have a jolly joust on this all season. Love using the term 5/8 … proper rugby. Edited by Wil Chips - 05 October 2020 at 9:21am |
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Dic Penderyn
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1.Fair play,a little extrapolation on my part.When did Dan last make a break,though?Game plan or not,if you can't run:you've got to kick....chicken and egg. 2.I agree with His Highness re.this player.Simply don't believe he should be in the frame at all. 3.Joust we shall!
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Bringing together points from all threads here...
Wet and windy, kickable penalties, arguably the best goalkicker in the world = take the points. NZ do this ALL the time. But yes they score tries... Yes, we aren't scoring enough tries and, once in the 22, not looking like it either. Red line fever, lack of head's up rugby, reading the space. We put a lot of pressure on, and ball retention has improved but I am still baffled by the approach of taking the ball of the scrum half standing still and THEN accelerating? What happened to taking the ball at pace? Overall, we did well against a team that's always tough to beat, and the whole team should take some credit for that. Steff Hughes - never going to be the most scintillating of centres but I think he's assured, makes very few mistakes and actually has a range of skills. He's the classic good club player. I have no problem with playing him when the need arises. Which brings me onto my main issue... Dan Jones. Before I go any further, I'm going to say I don't think he's a bad player. In fact, I think he's pretty good at what he does. He's surprisingly brave for his size, a great tactical kicker, and a decent passer. BUT... I don't think it's surprisingly that our best attacking rugby came with Patchell at outside half. IMHO we CANNOT play attacking, running rugby with Dan Jones at OH. He doesn't have the speed, agility, running creativity or passing vision for this. And then when you put him alongside the mercurial but myopic Gareth Davies (love his abilities, but head's up vision is not one of his finest) you have nothing that can get a backline going. We have three other OHs in the squad now who are ALL creative and runners. A sign of the future progression of the team? Surely we should be starting one of these, with Dan Jones as the tactical switch option on the bench rather than the other way around? |
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I'd like to see Dan Davi(e)s being given a run out during the international period.
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Very sensible and balanced post. Have a thanks
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I think Dan is a decent outside half for us and the 2 games vs Bath and Toulon in Jan 2018 showed exactly what he is capable of , the conditions on saturday certainly didnt help matters and Munster didnt even look that attacking, its just they broke through tackles and had piggy back penalties into dangerous positions where they then scored tries from or had 1 crappy kick given back to them with a lazy defence allowing them to score their first try.
Munster were giving penalties away for fun at times and in areas where there were points on offer, so we were always going to take these points in the weather rather than be more attack minded and go for points |
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Dan is a really good outside, but needs a 12 as second playmaker. Dan kicked well satuday
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