Bored of Super League??

Quote: McClennan "
Quote: McClennan "If you believe that the game has not gone negative, that the rugby league is still as exciting and that teams are actually demonstrating a better ability to keep hold of the ball, then I suggest you go to the doctor immediately and get yourself off the happy pills. /quote]

The slowing of the PTB has reduced the openess of the game. It has also led to more tackles being made in the competition. As defences improve the openess of the game reduces. Is the improvement in defence partly due to the slowing down of the PTB? Yes. However, some people used to suggest that the game was too open and creativity was dying as a result and would state that we should consider reducing the 10m rule back. We can't have it both ways. Either we speed up the PTB and moan about lack of creativity or we keep it as it is and moan about the lack of creativity.'"
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I have not blamed the play-the-ball per se.

As it happens, last night perfectly demonstrated the negative tactics of the game.

On very few occasions did we try to move the ball about to fashion chances and we relied heavily on percentage plays.

Now, i could handle this a little more if the coaches could point to the fact that their team lost too much possession by keeping the ball alive yet how is it possible for teams to lose possession more than they are doing at the moment.

The alarming thing is, even with one pass and a drive, we are still seeing dropped ball akimbo. Most of the time, that is because the dummy half can't even execute a simple one metre pass.

The standard of play, with ball in hand, in this country is appalling and it makes for awful viewing.