Ferocious Aardvark wrote:
It's all just an impression, I suppose, but to me, I think we train not to hold the opposition down unduly. Certainly most games we are on the wrong end of this, although it is possibly self-inflicted as you'd theorize that if we played to slow the PTB like most Champ clubs, then we'd get similar leniency. But it's a hard habit to get out of, and if you suddenly have to change from slow PTBs to Sl-stylee fast PTBs when you're not used to it, then that will use a lot of petrol. So in this department i think we have a definite advantage as we are used to jumping off and letting the oppos get on with it.
Think that's fair comment FA. On attack, we try to play the ball far quicker than the vast majority of championship teams and generally clear the ruck quicker in defence too, but whilst on attack we can only play the ball as fast as the referee lets us, on defence it's easy to get into the habit of making the ten at the necessary [with championship refs] speed rather than the speed which would be required by a ref Like Thaler. Hence my comment about how we do it in training.
