Kicking the Habit – The need for tactical Kicking
Apr30

Kicking the Habit – The need for tactical Kicking

After their demolition of ASM Clermont Auvergne a lot of the focus has been on Saracens defensive system. Understandably so, and we’ll focus on that later on this week, but something that was equally telling for me in predicting the outcome of the game was their ability to dominate the kicking game. We all know big games can turn on very little things, and one of those occurred about 4 minutes into the game.  Saracens...

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Low Phase Scoring – Six Nations 2014
Apr07

Low Phase Scoring – Six Nations 2014

Above is a short video highlighting the scoring speed after gaining possession from the first round of the Six Nations. So how many phases does it take to score a try? There is no right or wrong answer, but a statistic I found really interesting from this year’s six nations was that from the 61 trys, scored in this year’s Six Nations only around 5 were scored using more than 5 phases. Now, I’m no mathematician but...

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