Inside Shoulder
Nathan Sharpe (72)
Read this article and watched the video - had only seen the try in real time at the ground.
Fantastic analysis.
I'm just wondering if this move could have been defused by an exaggerated slide defence starting from a highly compressed backline alignment.
Its a technique that was first employed, to my knowledge, by Hawker and co in the late 70's for the Wallabies. I realise its a long time ago and times have changed but its worth consideration.
Its a system that I think has several great advantages: it tends to direct traffic across field and the traffic is manageable so you dont have to defend man on man, face to face, thereby giving you a built in optimum angle of defence. It eliminates a good many changes of angle options to the team with the ball.
It also has the advantage that it limits the premium on the defenders ability to read the coming move, mainly because of the fact that it directs traffic across field, but also because the defenders have some control over where the holes are and it shows the attackers the sideline which is effectively an extra defender.
I havent coached adults since the 5m from the hindmost foot law came in and I concede that this could impact severely on the usefulness of the system.
The video shows the massive distance between AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) and Finger and DC's angle which his bringing SBW back on the inside tends to exaggerate: if all the Aussie defenders were fiercely on the inside shoulder the switch would not be such a great option and the ball would probably only have one way to go so that no one (let alone the 3 that seemed to get taken by the dummy run) would stop their slide across field so we could conceivably have good numbers across to, and inside, the ball which would lessen the possibility of a successful offload to Jayne.
There is then a question about whether Dagg's pace on the outside, or Jayne's for that matter, are manageable.
Just putting it out there to see what people think.
Fantastic analysis.
I'm just wondering if this move could have been defused by an exaggerated slide defence starting from a highly compressed backline alignment.
Its a technique that was first employed, to my knowledge, by Hawker and co in the late 70's for the Wallabies. I realise its a long time ago and times have changed but its worth consideration.
Its a system that I think has several great advantages: it tends to direct traffic across field and the traffic is manageable so you dont have to defend man on man, face to face, thereby giving you a built in optimum angle of defence. It eliminates a good many changes of angle options to the team with the ball.
It also has the advantage that it limits the premium on the defenders ability to read the coming move, mainly because of the fact that it directs traffic across field, but also because the defenders have some control over where the holes are and it shows the attackers the sideline which is effectively an extra defender.
I havent coached adults since the 5m from the hindmost foot law came in and I concede that this could impact severely on the usefulness of the system.
The video shows the massive distance between AAC (Adam Ashley-Cooper) and Finger and DC's angle which his bringing SBW back on the inside tends to exaggerate: if all the Aussie defenders were fiercely on the inside shoulder the switch would not be such a great option and the ball would probably only have one way to go so that no one (let alone the 3 that seemed to get taken by the dummy run) would stop their slide across field so we could conceivably have good numbers across to, and inside, the ball which would lessen the possibility of a successful offload to Jayne.
There is then a question about whether Dagg's pace on the outside, or Jayne's for that matter, are manageable.
Just putting it out there to see what people think.