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<blockquote data-quote="woodward" data-source="post: 387110" data-attributes="member: 43038"><p>Are you referring to the shoulder charges? they have all been really marginal, always wrapping at least one arm. </p><p>As good as the All Blacks were last year the backline could have been alot more potent. A lot of times the attack would stagnate and it wasn't obvious where the break would come from. Apart from against Quade Cooper Nonu wasn't breaking the line with any consistency. The example everybody uses for why we should have Nonu there was because of a pissweak attempt from Smit who shouldn't have been on the field at that stage. SBW would have made that break as well but the point is, we need someone to create opportunities when the defense isn't falling apart so come WC finals time (hopefully) we have a surplus of attacking options. I don't want to have to rely on superior fitness for the All Blacks to capitalize on opponents weaknesses at the death. SBW creates tries, I think that Scotland game was destined to be tight and it was really, a full strength backline hardly created anything it all came from Williams. Maybe the offloads can be countered but so far we haven't seen it, let them worry about how to shut him down Carter and Smith would love to be forgotten about.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="woodward, post: 387110, member: 43038"] Are you referring to the shoulder charges? they have all been really marginal, always wrapping at least one arm. As good as the All Blacks were last year the backline could have been alot more potent. A lot of times the attack would stagnate and it wasn't obvious where the break would come from. Apart from against Quade Cooper Nonu wasn't breaking the line with any consistency. The example everybody uses for why we should have Nonu there was because of a pissweak attempt from Smit who shouldn't have been on the field at that stage. SBW would have made that break as well but the point is, we need someone to create opportunities when the defense isn't falling apart so come WC finals time (hopefully) we have a surplus of attacking options. I don't want to have to rely on superior fitness for the All Blacks to capitalize on opponents weaknesses at the death. SBW creates tries, I think that Scotland game was destined to be tight and it was really, a full strength backline hardly created anything it all came from Williams. Maybe the offloads can be countered but so far we haven't seen it, let them worry about how to shut him down Carter and Smith would love to be forgotten about. [/QUOTE]
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