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Stephen Perofeta back in action
By Online Editors
Promising Blues first five eighth Stephen Perofeta's Super Rugby return may be just around the corner.
The highly touted 20-year-old started in the No 10 jersey for the Blues A side on Friday afternoon.
Fellow Blues first five Otere Black stepped in as assistant coach as he continues to rehab an ACL injury.
After Perofeta's injury, the Blues were reluctant to give a hard return date and set his recovery timeline at six weeks, potentially ruling him out from the side's trip to South Africa over the next two weeks.
After losing both Black and Perofeta before the start of the regular season, Bryn Gatland has been thrust into Tana Umaga's starting side at first five.
Gatland scored the Blues' first try of the season against the Highlanders last week.
Both Perofeta and Gatland's most impressive professional performances came during last year's British and Irish Lions tour. Perofeta started at first five during the Blues' victory over the Lions, while Gatland started for the Provincial Barbarians against his father's Lions side.
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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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