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I've been going to watch hull fc for over 25 years now and in that time I'm finding it hard to remember any piece of ball in hand skill then what Rangi chase produced on Saturday night . Simply astonishing piece of skill , can anyone remember anything that come close to IT ?
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Legends and Icons wrote:I've been going to watch hull fc for over 25 years now and in that time I'm finding it hard to remember any piece of ball in hand skill then what Rangi chase produced on Saturday night . Simply astonishing piece of skill , can anyone remember anything that come close to IT ?
Jon Sharp with his exaggerated overhead pass to Richard Gay (which they pulled off more than once), for comedy value alone it was a thing of genius.
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I think I must be the only person in the rugby league world who is not that impressed with it, he does the little flick but goes nowhere he's just running sideways granted he fooled the fc defence into thinking he'd given the ball to the inside runner but that could of been achieved with a simple dummy, now if he'd of done the flick and then beaten a man or broke the line then I would be impressed, I actually think the offload out the back door is the better piece of skill.
Oh and if it wasn't for the pathetic defending earlier on in that set to let him beat three men then he wouldn't of been in that position and then the tackling just after the flick was even worse.
BEN_THE_BLACK&WHITE wrote:I think I must be the only person in the rugby league world who is not that impressed with it, he does the little flick but goes nowhere he's just running sideways granted he fooled the fc defence into thinking he'd given the ball to the inside runner but that could of been achieved with a simple dummy, now if he'd of done the flick and then beaten a man or broke the line then I would be impressed, I actually think the offload out the back door is the better piece of skill.
Oh and if it wasn't for the pathetic defending earlier on in that set to let him beat three men then he wouldn't of been in that position and then the tackling just after the flick was even worse.
Doesn't matter if anyone is impressed or not, it was effective and our dumb players fell for it hook line and sinker..again. Take the chance to smash the living carp out of him at the first opportunity, if he offloads, so be it, so long as you aren't late/high he'd be less likely to be fannying around if he knows he's going to get smashed everytime.
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knockersbumpMKII wrote:Doesn't matter if anyone is impressed or not, it was effective and our dumb players fell for it hook line and sinker..again. Take the chance to smash the living carp out of him at the first opportunity, if he offloads, so be it, so long as you aren't late/high he'd be less likely to be fannying around if he knows he's going to get smashed everytime.
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BEN_THE_BLACK&WHITE wrote:I think I must be the only person in the rugby league world who is not that impressed with it, he does the little flick but goes nowhere he's just running sideways granted he fooled the fc defence into thinking he'd given the ball to the inside runner but that could of been achieved with a simple dummy, now if he'd of done the flick and then beaten a man or broke the line then I would be impressed, I actually think the offload out the back door is the better piece of skill.
Oh and if it wasn't for the pathetic defending earlier on in that set to let him beat three men then he wouldn't of been in that position and then the tackling just after the flick was even worse.
But even in a sport as tough as rugby league, perhaps especially in a sport as tough as rugby league, it isn't just about mundane utility, there's room for the odd extravagant flourish. Rene Higuita could have just caught the ball in nets for Colombia at Wembley - and nobody in this country would remember his name or that otherwise unremarkable game.
'Thus I am tormented by my curiosity and humbled by my ignorance.' from History of an Old Bramin, The New York Mirror (A Weekly Journal Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts), February 16th 1833.
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