Re: Official - Australia & NZ pull out of World Cup : Sun Jul 25, 2021 2:02 pm
NickyKiss wrote:
Rads spoke about how much more entertaining the game was back in the early 2000’s during a recent podcast. Everything goes in cycles and since Maguire came here in 2010, the whole game in this country and changed and got in to that grind mentality of low error counts, low risk plays, strong carries from your outside backs in your own 30 metres and the defensive structures have improved. A team will go totally against the grain at some point and be a trend setter for playing a more open brand of rugby. Why can’t that be us? If Rads knows it’s turgid, why not do something about it? We couldn’t been making the change these last 3 seasons. We’ve won nothing anyway, so we could had a transitional period to go in a totally different direction. One where you say ‘you score 30 and we’ll score 40’ or at least try to do that.
The Liverpool way a few seasons ago, I don’t watch much football but it seemed to have brought about a change in the PL and more attacking football than the English way of defensive play.
I agree. It seemed when we appointed (and at the same time didn’t) SE then AL that was the way we were going to go. That could well have sprung change in SL but alas due to the well documented failure of the coaching staff it isn’t to be under the current coach.
Cas kind of threatened it in 2017 and Saints certainly did under Holbrook, but it never caught on. Part of me hopes Powell does it at Warrington and inspires the rest of the league to change their way.