This is a rare occasion where I won’t spend a lot of time typing, but I wanted to share an excellent analysis from former Wallaby coach Bob Dwyer on Ben Alexander’s try against the Boks at the weekend. While the speedy and clever prop (how’s that for a double contradiction to stereotype!?) might have scored [...]
Archive for July, 2011
Text Book Counter Attack
Posted in Tactical, tagged analysis, attack, counter attack, tactics, use of space, video on 28/07/2011 | Leave a Comment »
Perfect Rugby
Posted in General Posts, Tactical, tagged analysis, attack, awareness, philosophy, tactics, video on 28/07/2011 | Leave a Comment »
If you’ve not bookmarked Rugby Dump, click the link and do so now! It’s a great site which features highlights from around the rugby world every few days, and I’m glad to see one sub-set – on the history of rugby – finally be completed recently. In particular, I wanted to post the last two [...]
Defensive Organisation at the Tackle Contest
Posted in Tactical, tagged communication, defence, strategy, tactics, use of space on 27/07/2011 | 4 Comments »
As has probably been mentioned in this blog before, I started rugby as a late teen – which is all-too-common for most Canadians – in the late 90s. Now it might have been because we were in a bit of a backwater area, or because it was Canada where we pick up on new trends [...]
Support Runner Communication
Posted in General Posts, Tactical, tagged attack, awareness, communication on 06/07/2011 | Leave a Comment »
I was recently engaged in a short debate about communication on the field and I discovered that I seem to occupy a modern mentality that there’s nothing wrong with a lot of chatter. That said, I hear too much repetitive chatter that I fear becomes white noise after a while. Players yelling ‘ballballball!’ is a [...]
