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So no Cummins?
Pace still has a place for Australia in India but home side’s squad selections show spin will be king
He is taller than Samu Kerevi, Hunter Paisami, Jordan Petaia, Lalakai Foketi and Len Ikitau. Kerevi is slightly heavier. Latrell isn’t Lock huge, but he is a big bopper.
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I’d be interested whether RA gave Rennie direction about strategy because he kept changing the team, which I assume was to build player depth, but at the cost of winning more matches. Marinos and McLennan probably would have preferred to use the same 15 players and no subs if it meant winning more now rather than investing in players for the future.
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Not sure about that. I reckon Latrell would be a top class inside centre in Union. Huge body, speed, aggression, lovely hands, big boot and great goalkicker. He is also an Indigenous leader who could bring interest to the sport from the largely untapped Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander player group.
How Eddie’s attention-grabbing return will help Wallabies convince NRL stars like Suaali'i to switch codes
IF we are going to play two spinners AND Cameron Green is unavailable, then I’d go with Carey at 6 and five bowlers. We absolutely have to have 3 seamers in the team. If Green remains unavailable (not sure of his return to play) then I’d go with Lyon only, three seamers and Renshaw at 6. Green gives the selectors a lot of tactical freedom.
Australian spinners in India a horror story but Murphy can turn tide on tour if selectors take bold gamble
Lyon can bat 7 then. The point doesn’t change in that one batter short is better than one seamer short because our top 5 are so good. It didn’t work for South Africa because their batters weren’t good enough. We always need to play three seamers, so if we also need two spinners, while Green is out, we have a shorter batting lineup. Once he is back then Boland misses out and we have a more traditional looking order.
Australian spinners in India a horror story but Murphy can turn tide on tour if selectors take bold gamble
For me its Kuhnemann as second spinner and Carey at 6 and Cummins at 7. We need to have three seamers, and our top five bats are all in the top fifteen in the batting rankings. I think there is a greater risk of a seamer getting injured than most or all of our top order failing in the one inning. Our tail aren’t mugs either. It would be a rare game that we don’t get 50 runs out of the bottom 5.
Australian spinners in India a horror story but Murphy can turn tide on tour if selectors take bold gamble
In Khawaja’s last few series against spin, he has been exceptional, so I don’t think we need to worry about him in particular.
Australian spinners in India a horror story but Murphy can turn tide on tour if selectors take bold gamble
Spot on. Agar is completely inconsistent with length in particular. He over pitches twice an over, so can’t put on pressure. Those balls are ok in white ball cricket because the goal is to give away a single rather than a boundary, but in test cricket it means the batters get an over they can relax on. I kept hearing commentators talk about whether we should have played a fast bowler for Renshaw, but if Boland plays instead of Agar, we win that game.
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AFL and NRL aren’t part of the Olympics, so get nothing there. Football and Rugby (for 7s) do get funding for Olympic programs. AFL and NRL get funding for participation from govt, but the lion’s share of the money they get the benefit of (rather than receive directly) is stadium development. I also imagine new rectangular stadia around the country have a business case saying they are for rugby/rugby league and football.
My read of the situation is AFL and NRL fund their own player development so the parents of the best kids don’t need to spend thousands for them to be well coached and get exposure to professional opportunities. They can do this because TV deals give them the cash. Football can’t because the A-League doesn’t have the same sort of deal. I doubt the government is going to step into this space, but who knows.
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Next up, even though he is 33, has to be Dan Hughes. 9 centuries in 36 Marsh Cup games, including 2 in his last 2 bats. Agar has had a very long career for a very average player (18 ODI wickets at 46.44 with econ of 5.32), but there are no other finger spinners knocking down the door to replace him, so unless we want to trust Travis Head (14 ODI wickets at 58.42 with an econ of 5.82) to fill that spot, perhaps its him.
Agar getting his turn could be another unlucky break for Maxwell’s chances of Australian return in any format
I think its totally up to the batter to stay behind the crease, and I’d go one further and empower the umpires to call ‘one short’ on any runs they get after leaving early. We don’t allow the batter to get a run if they don’t reach the other end, so why give them one if they also don’t run the 22 yards ‘legally’.
Bowlers are right and wrong to Mankad batters but there's a solution to cricket's most polarising issue
I think the loss of Opacic will hurt the Eels more than we think. Any time a second rower has to play centre all of a sudden they are playing 80 minutes against faster players and making different decisions. Lane, Brown and Sivo may have to second guess themselves in defence, and Chad will know how to exploit that. Our right side isn’t the strongest defensively, but if the Eels are even a few percent off in shifting the ball then that gives our boys the chance to recover and make the right decisions.
In attack, I see us going right up the hey diddle diddle tonight, especially when RCG and Junior are tiring. Reece Robson to be MoM!
Stretch, rattle and roll: How Parramatta can beat the Cowboys
Hampton can cover Dearden’s front line defence pretty well, and can run the ball. He won’t be as creative or as confident, so Drinky will have to do a little more when we go left. I hope we don’t move Drinky forward as he is rocks and diamonds at 6.
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It would be interesting to get a top coach to comment on this, as I imagine they’d have a similar taxonomy in their heads at least when thinking about their playing group. While we all know how many players in positions a team has because of the tradition of numbers, I reckon you may have a different mix of schemers, boppers, etc across the clubs. Does having 6 Yardage players give you an advantage over having 5, or can you get away with fewer if you have a Schemer or an extra Spark Plug. Trainspotters would love this!
Role with it: Why it's about time we rethink positions on a rugby league team
All of the recent tackles mentioned come from the strategy of slowing the play the ball. Cleary appeared to be trying to back slam Brown in a dominant tackle which earns some seconds of lying around on him and then the time it takes for him to turtle, stand and play it. Finucane was looking to force an error or at least a quick one on one tackle without Crighton passing the play the ball line so his other defenders get a breather and can set for the next tackle. Carrigan and every other third man in waits until the ball carrier is stopped then comes in to bring them to ground slowly.
Can we make the tackle and play the ball quicker and safer (for everyone) without teams conceding an advantage? IF you watch matches from the 80’s or before, the tackle and play the ball speed is incredible. I imagine this is something to do with the 5m rule. The ability to set your line quickly meant you didn’t need to commit three players to tackles to slow it down.
I’d love to see a lower league trial a set of rule changes where:
~ No additional tacklers allowed if the attacker’s forward momentum has stopped. For many forwards runs this will just mean the third man in, but in wider areas it will stop the floppers.
~ Defences back 5m instead of 10m
~ To borrow a rule from rugby, penalise tacklers for ‘not rolling away’. This would include holding onto the attacker while standing up after the call of held.
I’d hope these changes would depower the tackle, without killing defence.
How can we make players care about the damage they're doing to rivals?
If Smith passes to his centre instead of attempting a double cut out then its a simple try as they already had created the overlap. This was an attacking error that was rewarded with a sin bin. I’ll concede a sin bin if the defender is offside AND stops a clear probable try.
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Freeze the video on the Perese yellow at the 1 second mark.
You see that England have a two on one advantage as the centre has got outside his marker. If Smith throws it to him instead of trying to hit the winger with the double cut out, the centre scores or draws Perese and passes to the unmarked wing. The Smith knock down yellow comes with the attacker passing at the line. These are risky attacking plays, and it seems to me that if the defender is onside (many times they aren’t), they should be able to disrupt the pass however they like. I know that’s not the rule, but I think the attackers get too much benefit out of the current situation.
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Gilbert is an 80 minute guy and will tackle and run at anyone. He’ll give as close to what Reuben gave us in game 1, and will be a perfect replacement for Kaufusi. Jeremiah is a risk, so I hope he picks up his game, in particular in defence.
Loyalty or lunacy? Slater makes big gamble as Maroons bank on tried and true mantra for series decider
I think you are underselling the Cows quite a bit on the back of one game. They were never going to beat Penrith on Friday, and their terrible handling meant they kept giving away possession to a team that normally doesn’t need much to win. NQ then defended their hearts out, and if Val doesn’t drop that ball at the line, it could have been 16-6 with 25 to go. If we can get the win against the Titans tomorrow, Payten will go into the break thinking top 4 finish. A loss in week 1 of the finals means a semi in Townsville in week 2, and then on to a likely match on the second last weekend of the comp. Not bad for a team of kids.
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I think the something in between is depowering the scrum to remove some of the risk, but having it as a contest. Put the flankers and lock in the backline and just have the tight 5 with a feed down the middle.
Is this a problem without a solution? Why thinking around scrums needs a reset
I reckon we’ll see a few more of those dummy half runs going forward. Against a retreating defence Taumololo is good for 20m every time.
The lock is key: How subtle tactical change has propelled Penrith even higher
I’m not sure the Cowboys are in free fall, nor that you could blame Taumololo for that if they were. He certainly isn’t Yeo, but Payten was trying to play Mitch Dunn in that role and he just wasn’t ready for that yet. Yeo is in his 8th season, and its really only the last couple where he has been a standout player. Dunn may get there, but I reckon Reuben Cotter could too. I’m just thankful we appear to have two halves doing ok at the moment.
The lock is key: How subtle tactical change has propelled Penrith even higher
Everyone’s draw (except the poor old Warriors) is biased towards games in their home town or state. The Roosters don’t leave NSW again (except a trip to Canberra) until they play the Storm until round 24. Its just what happens if you don’t have full home and away and the administrators ensure derbies and matches with the best chance of crowds or TV ratings get played.
On the merit of the Cowboys, they’ve certainly been frustrating in the Bulldogs and Warriors losses, and have barely had an easy win in a few years. I’d love to watch the last ten minutes of a game knowing we are going to win!
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Is there any data on the NZ trial of ‘below the sternum’ with regards to concussion? As another commenter said, it seems like a much more logical spot to draw the line to not change the fabric of the sport but to be safer.
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