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[2014 TRC] Australia v New Zealand in Sydney (16/08/2014)
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<blockquote data-quote="goodNumber10" data-source="post: 665030" data-attributes="member: 71068"><p>I don't have a massive issue with NZ giving away the bulk of their possession, in those conditions the %'s rule, and the likeliest you are going to come to scoring a try is from kicking deep and putting on pressure - it's no coincidence that the closest anyone got to scoring (Australia) was off a long kick.</p><p></p><p>Australia dominated the territory stats, ran multiple phases made themselves tired and worked hard and yet never scored a try. That's because importantly their phases didn't pull anyone in - one NZ defender was able to defend each pod bringing it to ground allowing the 14 other All Blacks to transition with no fear of pick and goes or a snipe from White. The AB's got their tactics pretty spot on defence wise they just allowed Australia to run through their phases waiting for them to knock on in the wet or wait until someone could make a dominant tackle then flood the breakdown for a steal - the Kaino hit on Beal was a perfect example of that (I think one of the commentators even pointed that out).</p><p></p><p>In those conditions both sets of halfbacks should have been playing a territory game and even then that's going to be tough to do, Cruden and Smith did (or at least tried to), Beale/Toomua and White didn't.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="goodNumber10, post: 665030, member: 71068"] I don't have a massive issue with NZ giving away the bulk of their possession, in those conditions the %'s rule, and the likeliest you are going to come to scoring a try is from kicking deep and putting on pressure - it's no coincidence that the closest anyone got to scoring (Australia) was off a long kick. Australia dominated the territory stats, ran multiple phases made themselves tired and worked hard and yet never scored a try. That's because importantly their phases didn't pull anyone in - one NZ defender was able to defend each pod bringing it to ground allowing the 14 other All Blacks to transition with no fear of pick and goes or a snipe from White. The AB's got their tactics pretty spot on defence wise they just allowed Australia to run through their phases waiting for them to knock on in the wet or wait until someone could make a dominant tackle then flood the breakdown for a steal - the Kaino hit on Beal was a perfect example of that (I think one of the commentators even pointed that out). In those conditions both sets of halfbacks should have been playing a territory game and even then that's going to be tough to do, Cruden and Smith did (or at least tried to), Beale/Toomua and White didn't. [/QUOTE]
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