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The Short Ball - s03e20 - You can never count a French team out
By RugbyPass
Mils and Scotty join you from the rickety podcast studio one last time before The Short Ball gets a shiny new home. This week they're here to discuss Super Rugby, including the very latest tragedy at the Blues, and back to back losses for the Hurricanes.
In looking forward to the first test against the French at Eden Park this weekend the boys have picked Luke Whitelock to start at number eight, and are tipping Karl Tu’inukuafe to be huge off the bench on debut.
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There is nothing particularly significant about Ireland in this regard compared to other Tier 1 nations. To look at 'strategy' for illegal play its best to see what teams push boundaries with new laws. SA have milked two tries at ruck block downs. The strategy is to charge the first few before the ball is out at about 4 seconds but pull out and put up hands in reigned apology. The referees usually allow the scum half to clear without awarding a penalty in this scenario. The problem with that being that the scrumhalf is now taking over 5 seconds through no fault of his own. Having achieved a few slow balls > 5s , the SA forward can now pick a scrum to charge dead on 5s. Now if the scrum half waits, he will concede a penalty, as we saw against Scotland. With the new rule in place, any early charge should result in an immediate penalty.
SA also got an offside block against England which was pivotal again after a couple of 'apologetic' offside aborted charges forcing England to clear slowly.
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