SaintsFan wrote:
You made an assumption about why I asked the question in the first place. I'm not interested in your analysis. I never was. I asked a genuine question as to who leads the defensive slide. When I was taking my coaching badge (in 2009) I was taught that it was the edge players who 'pulled' the players across with them, rather than players being 'pushed' across. Therefore, I have always interpreted the movement of the slide as if being pulled by the edge player.
What you refer to is a drift defence when defending further out field. Goal line defence is completely different, Wilkin rushed in on the lead runner leaving a 3 on 2 for Hodgeson to exploit. Nobody was to blame for the try, it was good execution by Warrington.