I keep reading about this plan for a light but mobile pack. It may someone's grand design but I'm more likely to believe it was just a justification for the pack we ended up with.
But the players are only half the job, to make the plan work we need to play the right game. If we are to tire the oppositions bigger, nastier forwards out then we've got to move them around a lot more than we do. We won't do that with conventional rugby, one man drives from first receiver into three man tackles.
Can we risk playing a more expansive game, keeping the ball alive, offloads, quick play the balls, intelligent kicking, dummy runners? I'm not convinced we can, we'd make too many errors and give the opposition time to recover. That wouldn't have been the answer v Leigh in those conditions anyway.
We seem to always be aiming for less errors ( presumably by playing a more conservative game) and a good start, when the lighter pack plan surely needs a more expansive game and capitalise on our advantage later on when their forwards tire, completely the reverse of what we are setting out to do. Right players, wrong game plan?
