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Cant blame anyone but ourselves for that loss. We should have won by 30 but we let the Blues control the gain line with their line speed too often catching us 10mtrs behind the last ruck. The disappointing thing about losing the gain line so weakly was the inability of the boys to recognise the problem during the game. The solution was to run onto the ball in a straight line at pace. Every forward runner was catching the ball flat footed and our backs kept trying to be too cutsie with the ball by playing second line play after second line play. RUN ONTO THE FUCKING BALL AT PACE. That is how you negate defensive linespeed. Trying to fuck around 15-20m behind the gain line with sideways play wont ever get you anywhere. You need to take the opportunity for line speed on defense away by running onto the ball at pace.
I repeat run straight, run hard and take the ball already in motion. Its not hard, weve been fucking around with this flat footed bullshit for too long. Lets actually run onto the ball, please for the love of god, run onto the ball at pace. Take the line speed away from the defence and stop shoveling shit ball sideways.