![]() ![]() Neither team needs to start panicking but when you’re 0-3 like the Eels now are, the pressure gets turned up a few notches, particularly when you’ve got Penrith next week and the Roosters the week after. Melbourne and the Eels have both had to bring in a few new players, especially in their pack, and it’s having an effect. ? Watch #NRLBulldogsTigers on ch.502 or stream on Kayo: ✍️ BLOG MATCH CENTRE /tT7NfgphVr- Fox League March 19, 2023 Some of the better defensive teams from last year like the Storm, Parramatta and Cowboys are struggling with these new interpretations.Īlamoti and Addo-Carr combine again for another length of the field try! ? The difference in average play-the-ball speed can only be a fraction of a second between the teams but over the course of 80 minutes it adds up and can be decisive. We did a similar thing with the Kangaroos at the World Cup last year when we were using Cam Murray and Pat Carrigan as part of our front-row rotation off the bench.Ī few years ago when the six-again stuff was introduced, clubs were complaining that they didn’t have time to tinker with their roster to shed a few lumbering big men from their roster but I think most teams now have got middle forwards who have the agility to cover a lot of ground and play big minutes. I think we’ll see coaches adapt quickly and go with more mobile packs after seeing how the first few rounds have played out. (Photo by Bradley Kanaris/Getty Images)īrisbane are another team that have got athletic back-rowers and centres and it’s no coincidence that they’re also undefeated. When I first came across him six years ago when he made the 2017 World Cup squad, he was a gangly 20-year-old. Scores will naturally come down as the teams get their match fitness up, they adapt to the new rules and the temperatures come down.Ī team like Manly is benefiting because they’ve got mobile forwards who can exploit this like Haumole Olakau’atu and Taniela Paseka, clever halves and then Tommy Trbojevic coming off the back fence to score tries. There’s not as much wrestling going on in the ruck. We’re not seeing that now with these two tweaks. It was a deliberate strategy to slow down the ruck. Therefore the team with the ball can get on a roll a bit easier and get the defensive line backpedalling.Īnd then you couple that with the “held, release” call – last year there was a gap between when the ref would call held, then release and we saw teams in defence hold an attacking player up with three tacklers swarming all over him and it could be upwards of seven, eight, sometimes nine seconds for them to play the ball. Having to have two feet behind the referee means teams are not able as much to rush up on the attacking team with their line speed. ![]()
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