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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Manx" data-source="post: 629387" data-attributes="member: 50236"><p>I am not against "restrictive" rugby and would actually look upon this more as having a strong defense such that a game is be won by stopping the other team scoring. But nowadays successful teams also have good backs (to score when the defence actually fails and they are behind for example) who are used once the defense has worked and there is good ball for them to run rather than, like Bayonne, all ball to run!</p><p></p><p>The 9 man game of BO was based on a strong defense throughout the team but, in addition, all ball was kept in the forwards by Yach and the power of the forwards would lead to push over tries or penalties enough to win the games. That is no longer a viable sole method of scoring! There was no greater ambition in the club than this hence their wins with under 10 points scored against each of Sale and Northampton in the H Cup at Anoeta!</p><p></p><p>Nowadays, even with a strong defense, you need the capacity to score tries and this means that you need backs.....with Biarritz over recent years, their defence has been reasonable (until this year) but they could not score much outside the forwards as they did not have the class or trust in the backs! </p><p></p><p>Many is the time I have sat at Agullera and wondered where a try was coming from in yet another defeat....................</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tony Manx, post: 629387, member: 50236"] I am not against "restrictive" rugby and would actually look upon this more as having a strong defense such that a game is be won by stopping the other team scoring. But nowadays successful teams also have good backs (to score when the defence actually fails and they are behind for example) who are used once the defense has worked and there is good ball for them to run rather than, like Bayonne, all ball to run! The 9 man game of BO was based on a strong defense throughout the team but, in addition, all ball was kept in the forwards by Yach and the power of the forwards would lead to push over tries or penalties enough to win the games. That is no longer a viable sole method of scoring! There was no greater ambition in the club than this hence their wins with under 10 points scored against each of Sale and Northampton in the H Cup at Anoeta! Nowadays, even with a strong defense, you need the capacity to score tries and this means that you need backs.....with Biarritz over recent years, their defence has been reasonable (until this year) but they could not score much outside the forwards as they did not have the class or trust in the backs! Many is the time I have sat at Agullera and wondered where a try was coming from in yet another defeat.................... [/QUOTE]
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