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Phil Kearns (64)
Chip kicks? Line kicks? Grubbers? Box kicks?
There are lots of ways to employ judicious kicking. This is now the biggest single area of weakness in the game here, at every level.
Quarter Final - Brumbies vs Highlanders, 22 July 2016 @ 6:00pm
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Chip kicks? Line kicks? Grubbers? Box kicks?
There are lots of ways to employ judicious kicking. This is now the biggest single area of weakness in the game here, at every level.
mst
Peter Johnson (47)
Coleman and Toua?
^^^^^most of the Brumbies supporters at the game as soon as they kick or after Toua has had the ball!
mst
Peter Johnson (47)
As long as Toua keeps kicking out on the full, it's hard for the Highlanders to counterattack.
mst
Peter Johnson (47)
Yeah, as long as!
He is not the only one. As Reg and others have pointed out it the end result of the kick that is the issue.
I have read the Toouma has said that they have all been chanting a saying all week at training; aim at row 7!
He has warned all the supporters in row 7 they are being aimed at when kicking to make sure the ball goes out!
They should employ Nathan Grey to run the sideline to try and field the kicks.
wamberal
Phil Kearns (64)
They key way to improve the kicking game is simply to not!
Mick Byrne was on the Rugby Show last night talking yet again about the importance of good kicking in complementing attacking options: not least because the threat of an attacking short kick (in particular) gives the defensive line-up an additional threat to be aware of.
What would he know, he is only the All Blacks skills coach? Or was for a fair while.
Chubby demonstrated his lack of rugby nous by commenting that to beat the ABs we have to score more tries, we won't do it by kicking goals.
Honestly, I despair.
MarkJ
Bob Loudon (25)
Or get him to elbow the opposition's best player in the head.
mst
Peter Johnson (47)
They said about 12 weeks from Mid June
Quick Hands
David Wilson (68)
Unfortunately, what has happened over the past 20 years or so is that the myth of running rugby has become so entrenched in the minds of some, that we now find ourselves in the position that almost anything other than spinning the ball across the backline at every play is considered illegitimate rugby in Australia.
I won't risk invoking the 3rd Reich, so I'll quote Lenin:
No4918
John Hipwell (52)
Make it the opposition's 5 best players and the Brumbies might have a real chance here.
Groucho
Greg Davis (50)
Except when he does it from outside his 22.
Groucho
Greg Davis (50)
The more I look at this, the better I like the Brumbies' chances. We know they have it in them. And they're due a big one. They'll be bouyed by the return of the inspirational Pocock. And everyone has written them off. This is precisely the kind of bitter, pissed-off, end-times scenario they're made for.
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