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Refusing to engage at lineouts?
Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2021 2:38 pm
by Niegs
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.
Re: Refusing to engage at lineouts?
Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2021 2:52 pm
by Kawazaki
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?
Re: Refusing to engage at lineouts?
Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2021 3:40 pm
by Insane_Homer
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.
Re: Refusing to engage at lineouts?
Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2021 6:49 pm
by Niegs
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.
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?