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<blockquote data-quote="Ragey Erasmus" data-source="post: 894767" data-attributes="member: 56232">The thing about Ford&#039;s tackling is that conceding a few metres but completing the tackle is far better than completely missing them. Most of the tries scored against us have been down to someone who isn&#039;t Ford completely missing a tackle, quite often from a run from a long way back. Even if they are caught, they concede FAR more ground that Ford does as a result of missing the tackle. If we are going to say what are the main causes of us conceding ground it is:1) Poor defence close to the ruck, they just sit there waiting for someone to run at them and then don&#039;t double up in the tackle so get pushed back2) Players running clean through the defence because the spacing is too big / forwards being too slow getting back into position (******* COLE)3) Defending far too narrow and being beaten on the outside because the defence don&#039;t make the effort to drift once the ball is going wide. You can see sides passing across the field way behind the gainline and our forwards are all just slowly trudging across the field making minimal effort to properly drift across.I&#039;d say Ford being hit is also a failure of other players no getting into position fast enough. If the opposition have had time to get their biggest runner in Ford&#039;s channel then why the hell do we not have our big defenders also nearby?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ragey Erasmus, post: 894767, member: 56232"] The thing about Ford's tackling is that conceding a few metres but completing the tackle is far better than completely missing them. Most of the tries scored against us have been down to someone who isn't Ford completely missing a tackle, quite often from a run from a long way back. Even if they are caught, they concede FAR more ground that Ford does as a result of missing the tackle. If we are going to say what are the main causes of us conceding ground it is: 1) Poor defence close to the ruck, they just sit there waiting for someone to run at them and then don't double up in the tackle so get pushed back 2) Players running clean through the defence because the spacing is too big / forwards being too slow getting back into position (******* COLE) 3) Defending far too narrow and being beaten on the outside because the defence don't make the effort to drift once the ball is going wide. You can see sides passing across the field way behind the gainline and our forwards are all just slowly trudging across the field making minimal effort to properly drift across. I'd say Ford being hit is also a failure of other players no getting into position fast enough. If the opposition have had time to get their biggest runner in Ford's channel then why the hell do we not have our big defenders also nearby? [/QUOTE]

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