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| Quote BrisbaneRhino="BrisbaneRhino"
As for Hall, he scored 30 tries plus a year for 4 seasons in a row to 2012. Coincidence or otherwise since the arrival of Moon his strike rate fell markedly. This year in 32 games of a season when we've played well enough to finish second he's scored 14 tries. From what I've seen Cas would only need to make minor adjustments to get Hall over the line close to as often as Eden. Leeds by contrast show virtually no intent to get Hall into a position to use his strength to score. Even in big wins in the CC this year (Doncaster, Barrow and Fev), where we scored 35 tries in total, just 4 came from the wingers across those games. In our last two league games this year we've scored 14 tries with just one by a winger (Briscoe).'"
Cas have also revitalised Jake Webster's career. Imagine what they could do with Kallum Watkins? Ergo England should employ the entire Cas team, irrespective of nationality, except for Hall & Watkins.
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| Quote casben="casben"Cas this season have shown wingers can once again score tries!'"
Wigan have been doing it fine for several seasons now.
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| We've got a very big winger with a proven record of getting the ball down given space on one side, and a potentially brilliant centre on the other. In terms of setting up tries I would have thought it almost a no-brained to work out how to use them to their maximum. The fact that it gives us strike power and options on both sides of the field makes it even harder to understand why we don't make better use of what we have. Cas' attack is very one-sided and they still make it work despite the fact all their opponents know which side they're going.
Printer - you do change the rules if there's an anomaly that needn't exist, and removing it adds to the entertainment. It doesn't make the contest any different as both sides can do it. Its brought back a skill that was disappearing due to other changes, notably the coaching and fitness of teams improving to the point that a well-drilled set defence could cover touchline to touchline with ease. All this change has done is added a little to the effective width of the pitch and like I said removing a completely pointless anomaly in the rules. Diving acrobatically is a skill, but its also high risk because its score or bust. Its not as though just being able to dive matters - far more important is getting the ball wide in the first place.
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| Quote BrisbaneRhino="BrisbaneRhino"Printer - you do change the rules if there's an anomaly that needn't exist, and removing it adds to the entertainment. It doesn't make the contest any different as both sides can do it. Its brought back a skill that was disappearing due to other changes, notably the coaching and fitness of teams improving to the point that a well-drilled set defence could cover touchline to touchline with ease. All this change has done is added a little to the effective width of the pitch and like I said removing a completely pointless anomaly in the rules. Diving acrobatically is a skill, but its also high risk because its score or bust. Its not as though just being able to dive matters - far more important is getting the ball wide in the first place.'"
It hasn't brought back a skill, in fact it's cheapened the skill of breaking down a goal line defence. Now you don't need to properly draw in the opposition winger, just get the ball to the winger and let him throw 90% of his body sideways out of touch and like I said before it happens which such regularity that I can't believe people still are excited by them. You make it sound like teams can't score in the corner if it wasn't for this when they clearly can and do. More impressive for me is when a winger gets in cleanly and the opposition aren't even within arms reach of him, that's proper skill of breaking a team down and not this false one we have now that's akin to setting up a batter friendly wicket with short boundaries in cricket or a golf course deliberately set up easier to shoot low scores. Sure some will be easily pleased by that but others will see it for what it is.
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| Quote BrisbaneRhino="BrisbaneRhino"Printer - you do change the rules if there's an anomaly that needn't exist, and removing it adds to the entertainment. It doesn't make the contest any different as both sides can do it. Its brought back a skill that was disappearing due to other changes, notably the coaching and fitness of teams improving to the point that a well-drilled set defence could cover touchline to touchline with ease. All this change has done is added a little to the effective width of the pitch and like I said removing a completely pointless anomaly in the rules. Diving acrobatically is a skill, but its also high risk because its score or bust. Its not as though just being able to dive matters - far more important is getting the ball wide in the first place.'"
I agree.
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| Reduce the width of the pitch to 30m. The skills required to score would obviously be staggeringly entertaining.
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| Quote tigertot="tigertot"Reduce the width of the pitch to 30m. The skills required to score would obviously be staggeringly entertaining.'"

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| Quote tigertot="tigertot"Reduce the width of the pitch to 30m. The skills required to score would obviously be staggeringly entertaining.'"
Well your lot has reduced the length of the pitch to make 40/20s easier.
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| Love a 40/20 me
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| Quote Old Feller="Old Feller"Well your lot has reduced the length of the pitch to make 40/20s easier.'"
....for both sides.
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| Quote Bullseye="Bullseye"....for both sides.'"
But Cas are used to it since it's their ground.
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