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[2024 Six Nations] Wales vs France - 10/03/24
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<blockquote data-quote="dullonien" data-source="post: 1179759" data-attributes="member: 13739"><p>Tomos Williams' strengths are his running game, distribution and vision. His kicking game has never been much of a strength, although he has had games where he's been good. He's slightly unlucky that he's playing in the current climate which is dominated by box kicking from 9 - when WR finally do something about the caterpillar ruck it'll probably return to a better balance of kicking from 9, 10 + wider backs.</p><p></p><p>We need to be playing to our strengths though, and if this isn't box kicking, then why do we rely so heavily on this tactic? In the WC warmups we mixed things up by shaping to box kick, then passing it back to 10 instead and I thought it worked well.</p><p></p><p>We also need to identify additional kickers in the backline. 13 is a great position to kick from as they often have a little more time and space. I know Roberts got a couple of kicks wrong v France, but he made a few good clearances as well. He doean't need to be vilified for a couple of mistakes in only his second appearance. I thought he showed some promise personally, and probably has an all round game (pace, distribution, kicking etc.) which is a cut above our other options there and might be worth persavering with.</p><p></p><p>The problem is that we go into the Italy game under a huge amount of pressure to avoid the dreaded spoon, so maybe this isn't the game to continue to experiment with North the more reliable option.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dullonien, post: 1179759, member: 13739"] Tomos Williams' strengths are his running game, distribution and vision. His kicking game has never been much of a strength, although he has had games where he's been good. He's slightly unlucky that he's playing in the current climate which is dominated by box kicking from 9 - when WR finally do something about the caterpillar ruck it'll probably return to a better balance of kicking from 9, 10 + wider backs. We need to be playing to our strengths though, and if this isn't box kicking, then why do we rely so heavily on this tactic? In the WC warmups we mixed things up by shaping to box kick, then passing it back to 10 instead and I thought it worked well. We also need to identify additional kickers in the backline. 13 is a great position to kick from as they often have a little more time and space. I know Roberts got a couple of kicks wrong v France, but he made a few good clearances as well. He doean't need to be vilified for a couple of mistakes in only his second appearance. I thought he showed some promise personally, and probably has an all round game (pace, distribution, kicking etc.) which is a cut above our other options there and might be worth persavering with. The problem is that we go into the Italy game under a huge amount of pressure to avoid the dreaded spoon, so maybe this isn't the game to continue to experiment with North the more reliable option. [/QUOTE]
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