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2024 Guinness Six Nations
Conspiracy theory?... Irish fans chime in? (long-ish)
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<blockquote data-quote="Leonormous Boozer" data-source="post: 932677" data-attributes="member: 45598"><p>Teams definitely reserve certain moves for certain situations and scenarios, Ireland last weekend, vs New Zealand, and in Twickenham last year are examples of that, Schmidt has always been a bit of a master at creating, altering and recycling the right strike moves at the right time, there were even examples of it in the last RWC, England's first try in Dublin too. However, apart from a game like NZ where the teams are more or less cancelling each other or where it can set the tone early like in Dublin out these moves are more often than not going to make F all difference. </p><p></p><p></p><p>I don't think anyone worth paying attention to is saying England's game revolves entirely around kicking, its just currently the area that they're capitalising the most on. England won the gainline battle easily in their last two games, they have a great balance of strong carriers and good ball players which allows them to have multiple options as to where they're going to attack each phase, its more or less the same as what NZ do and what Ireland do with their own spin on things. The gainline battle isn't always the winning of the game though if you can't score, go back to Ireland's games in Wales and Scotland in 2017 to see that. So England's kicking game is being mentioned so much because its how they've created 66% of their tries and won their games, can they score in other ways? Yeah, but by stopping them scoring from kicks you're putting pressure on them to do that and it might be enough to win on a given day. Wales are going into next week as a worse team trying to get a scalp so England's obvious strengths are what they're going to try to nullify you and hope they frustrate you enough to sneak a win, I don't think they've really got the players to play the game on their terms like England currently are.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Leonormous Boozer, post: 932677, member: 45598"] Teams definitely reserve certain moves for certain situations and scenarios, Ireland last weekend, vs New Zealand, and in Twickenham last year are examples of that, Schmidt has always been a bit of a master at creating, altering and recycling the right strike moves at the right time, there were even examples of it in the last RWC, England's first try in Dublin too. However, apart from a game like NZ where the teams are more or less cancelling each other or where it can set the tone early like in Dublin out these moves are more often than not going to make F all difference. I don't think anyone worth paying attention to is saying England's game revolves entirely around kicking, its just currently the area that they're capitalising the most on. England won the gainline battle easily in their last two games, they have a great balance of strong carriers and good ball players which allows them to have multiple options as to where they're going to attack each phase, its more or less the same as what NZ do and what Ireland do with their own spin on things. The gainline battle isn't always the winning of the game though if you can't score, go back to Ireland's games in Wales and Scotland in 2017 to see that. So England's kicking game is being mentioned so much because its how they've created 66% of their tries and won their games, can they score in other ways? Yeah, but by stopping them scoring from kicks you're putting pressure on them to do that and it might be enough to win on a given day. Wales are going into next week as a worse team trying to get a scalp so England's obvious strengths are what they're going to try to nullify you and hope they frustrate you enough to sneak a win, I don't think they've really got the players to play the game on their terms like England currently are. [/QUOTE]
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