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Redscat wrote:What I did notice was that Widnes made four "short kick" restarts, three from the centre spot and one from the twenty metre line. All were successfully carried out and they retained the ball.. Something yo think about eh???
All of them are you sure - to me they were acts of pure desperation and fairly ineffective. They caught us out because they were so unexpected at this level. Some might call it imaginative but as I say I just thought it was a desperate grab at straws.
Think last time I saw kick offs like that it was from the boot of sinfield . Been saying on an earlier thread that we seem to kick off to the opposing half backs who should have the safest pair of hands on the field . It certainly caught us out a few times .
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Desperate or not Vasty, they worked!!! There's been many a time when we've been desperate but not varied the restarts. Very Good display by Trin today though. Saints here we come.
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Redscat wrote:Desperate or not Vasty, they worked!!! There's been many a time when we've been desperate but not varied the restarts. Very Good display by Trin today though. Saints here we come.
But they didn’t work did they, superficial at best imo - as I say it was desperate one trick pony stuff. You can’t build a system around that can you, I mean everyone is now wise to it.
We may not be champs but we play proper structured RL I personally don’t think we need to play that kind of game.
The aim of a short kick off is to get possession back in a situation where 99 times out of 100 you’re opposition should get it, so in that sense all 4 worked a treat!
The fact that Widnes weren’t good enough to capitalise is irrelevant and Redcats point, that we ought to be better prepared for it, is valid. If it’s something we’re vulnerable to and better teams employ it we will pay a price at some point.
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The Avenger wrote:The aim of a short kick off is to get possession back in a situation where 99 times out of 100 you’re opposition should get it, so in that sense all 4 worked a treat!
The fact that Widnes weren’t good enough to capitalise is irrelevant and Redcats point, that we ought to be better prepared for it, is valid. If it’s something we’re vulnerable to and better teams employ it we will pay a price at some point.
Of course it’s relevent and I doubt any team would have been prepared for those kicks today. Again Trinity fans making mountains out of mole hills - can’t you just enjoy a win?
The Avenger wrote:The aim of a short kick off is to get possession back in a situation where 99 times out of 100 you’re opposition should get it, so in that sense all 4 worked a treat!
The fact that Widnes weren’t good enough to capitalise is irrelevant and Redcats point, that we ought to be better prepared for it, is valid. If it’s something we’re vulnerable to and better teams employ it we will pay a price at some point.
HKR scored straight from the half time restart against Cas without a hand been laid on them. It was a short KO the type of which I'd never seen before and inch perfect. When Cas dropped the goal with a couple of minutes to go on Friday against Wigan, Cas Tigers radio picked up Powell (just behind them) yelling for them to mark the short KO which Wigan tried and Cas dealt with. You would have thought CC would have been sending instructions after the first one.
vastman wrote:Of course it’s relevent and I doubt any team would have been prepared for those kicks today. Again Trinity fans making mountains out of mole hills - can’t you just enjoy a win?
I enjoyed the win, does that mean we can’t talk about the performance, the good and the not so good?
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