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This dummy half bullshit.
Has never worked, even in 2010.
Having outside backs take the first three to four hit ups of every set is a useless tactic of Smith's. The referees do not police the marker area, which means almost every team "fans out" their markers against us, having one on each side of the ruck. We thus run a consistent risk of our wingers/centres being caught early out of dummy half, and gaining only two to three metres. If this happens two or three times a set, we find ourselves pinned down in our own half.
Yes, Perrett makes good metres out of dummy half. But they aren't better metres than a Masoe or Kennedy could make if they were back there taking hit ups. And with big boppers running hard, you practically eliminate the risk of a paltry two metre gain.
It is a stupid tactic. Today, there were times when three or four of our big blokes were walking back through the Penrith defensive line when we were already four tackles into the set. Yes there is a fitness aspect to this, but they should not be thinking "We don't need to get back yet, the wingers have still got a couple of hit ups to go."
Not only is it predictable - predictable is fine when predictable works - but it is predictable crap.
Get rid of the dummy half bullshit and we will be a much better side.
Has never worked, even in 2010.
Having outside backs take the first three to four hit ups of every set is a useless tactic of Smith's. The referees do not police the marker area, which means almost every team "fans out" their markers against us, having one on each side of the ruck. We thus run a consistent risk of our wingers/centres being caught early out of dummy half, and gaining only two to three metres. If this happens two or three times a set, we find ourselves pinned down in our own half.
Yes, Perrett makes good metres out of dummy half. But they aren't better metres than a Masoe or Kennedy could make if they were back there taking hit ups. And with big boppers running hard, you practically eliminate the risk of a paltry two metre gain.
It is a stupid tactic. Today, there were times when three or four of our big blokes were walking back through the Penrith defensive line when we were already four tackles into the set. Yes there is a fitness aspect to this, but they should not be thinking "We don't need to get back yet, the wingers have still got a couple of hit ups to go."
Not only is it predictable - predictable is fine when predictable works - but it is predictable crap.
Get rid of the dummy half bullshit and we will be a much better side.
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