Tuesday, December 25, 2012

French Top 14 league rd 12 best tries

#10. A bit dodgy.
#14 accepts ball behind back of dummy runner. I would have called obstruction
#21 black totally out of position.

#9 Nice maul by Racing. makes one wonder if opponents have been taught how to counter a maul.

#8 Great try Perps.

#7 Great individual effort. Toulouse have the largest wage bill in Europe and have picked so many of the great players. Yet, as a team they continue to struggle. Heck they couldn't even beat Grenoble last week. Grenoble have 1/3rd the wage bill and were promoted to top league only this year.
Crap coaching.

#6 Beauty. Dummy runners and players running at speed. A crap attempt at tackle by #8 allows player to offload.

#5 Superb individual skills from Toulouse again.

#4 Terrible rucking skills by white. #13 white just stood around instead of linking with other white and driving the solitary opponent off ball. White could have either secured a turnover or at least a penalty

#3 Great offloads and passing skills finished off by a winger who knew exactly where support was and kicked to middle.

#2 Good try. Expansive rugby where ball is taken first to one side of field and then to other for next phase allowed attackers to get from half way to 22 in just 2 phases. The rest was a little lucky. Big Basteraud managing to stay on feet and offload allowed this try.

#1 Another nice offload in tackle. Keeping the ball alive and at same time getting behind defence. So simple yet mostly lacking in Northern Hemisphere rugby. I was surprised at the number of offloads in this French rugby review.


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