Quick Hands
David Wilson (68)
It really is a little ironic. We pride ourselves that the ball is always in contest in rugby, yet here is a tactic where one team chooses not to contest for possession and gift the ball to their opponents. The defending team chose not to contest in the air and on the ground.
But are those mauls set up from lineouts really a contest? They seem to me to be even less of a contest than the faux contest we now have at scrums as I have alluded to on the scrum thread (where the scrum has become a penalty wining contest not a ball winning contest)