Anatomy of a Try – Nathan Hughes vs Sale January 2015
View image | gettyimages.com First of all Happy New Year, and what better way to start it than with an example of some outstanding attacking play resulting in lovely try. So we’re going to have a quick look at a brilliant try from Wasps against Sale from round 12 of the Aviva Premiership. The try is scored from a well worked strike move off first phase ball which is pretty much the holy grail of...
Anatomy of a Try – Ben Ransom vs Sale December 2014
View image | gettyimages.com We've been a way for a few weeks, providing Wallabies analysis for the excellent Green and Gold Rugby, but what better way to come back than to look at a superb try from the last round of European Rugby, specifically Ben Ransom’s superb team effort. Rugby at its best is a simple game, and when played properly a well timed pass or a good line hit at pace from deep is impossible to defend....
Anatomy of a Try – Nick Cummins vs Australia November 2014
#458236394 / gettyimages.com The Wallabies vs Barbarians game was always going to be a game that could have gone either way – dire or great. Thankfully this was an occasion were both teams took the Barbarians ethos to heart and slung it about. How much we read into the Australian team from this is still to be determined, it was far from test match Rugby, but two Australian players that stood out for me on the day were...
The Anatomy of a Try – Kyle Eastmond vs Leicester September 2014
Bath have long been an attractive team to watch, but over the last couple of seasons their attacking philosophy has really taken things to a new level and on Saturday they literally destroyed Leicester, inflicting a rare 45-0, 5 try humiliation as they set about playing attacking Rugby from everywhere on the park. We'll take a look at their attacking shape later in the week but for now we'll focus on...
The Anatomy of a Try – Christelle Le Duff vs South Africa August 2014
As the Womens World Cup enters the semi-final stages I thought it'd be good to look back at one of the best tries from the pool stages, Christelle Le Duff's second against, a poor, South Africa. The try doesn't really mean much in the context of the game, but it's worth looking at because it comes from a well worked strike move. Strike moves are literally the Holy Grail of back play, it's one of those...
The Anatomy of a Try – Katherine Merchant vs Samoa August 2014
The IRB Women's Rugby World Cup is currently underway and the first round of games saw two big wins for the Black Ferns of New Zealand who beat Kazakhstan 79-5, and England who put Samoa away in a 65-3, 10 try rout, though it was a score line that belied the hard work put in by Samoa in this compelling game. You can follow the world cup here: Women's Rugby World Cup where their is daily news and videos, including...
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