Refusing to engage at lineouts?
Niegs wrote: Sat Oct 09, 2021 2:38 pm What’s happened to this tactic? I remember teams got smarter about keeping the ball with the jumper rather than quickly transferring back, but you can’t latch with more than one now so they’d be at risk of that.
Good question. It is a set-piece so maybe the latch rule is not in effect until the lineout is over?
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You have a much better chance of winning the ball by forcing an error/turnover from engaging and/or slowing the ball down than giving them the free ball collection and being slightly better organised to counter a maul, where the likelihood of any turnover is rely almost entirely on the opposition making a mistake they'd probably make anyway.
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I suppose with modern video analysis, they’ve worked out the odds. But teams getting monstered and facing try/pen and yellow still seem to engage. I’d think not at this stage might be the wiser action?Insane_Homer wrote: Sat Oct 09, 2021 3:40 pm You have a much better chance of winning the ball by forcing an error/turnover from engaging and/or slowing the ball down than giving them the free ball collection and being slightly better organised to counter a maul, where the likelihood of any turnover is rely almost entirely on the opposition making a mistake they'd probably make anyway.