My favourite was after Platt's glaring forward pass to Ainscough

'That was so far forward Stevie Wonder would have seen it'

If executed properly it's almost impossible to defend against. Someone has to mark the lead (front) runner and that's what creates the overlap. That's why every team uses the play so commonly.

I can see why every SL side uses the move (though we rarely seem to execute it very well ourselves!)

I would think that the key in defending it is communication. If that's done quick enough then the defence can move across to cover. At this game we seemed to stand like statues. Every defender had to take responsibility and move sideways quickly to provide cover. It's easy to criticise Ainscough but if he'd ran out to the winger the centre would've had a walk in. ALL the defenders have to move across and up quicker to give the attackers less time on the ball.

As you say if done well it's very hard to defend against but it's not impossible. Cas seemed almost to score at will using this move. We can and must do better if we're to do any better this season.

Maybe a symptom of the quality of players attempting the move as much as the quality of training IMO

I can't see many teams coping with Cas' famous LHS attack of James Clare, Josh Griffin & Josh Atkinson.

I'd like to think that we'll be executing it more effectively with Luke Gale playing.

I'll be very interested to see how we use our halfbacks this year. I think that a Luke Gale & Jarrod Sammut partnership would work really well playing as first and second reciever (In the style of Shaun Long & Leon Pryce) whereby the second reciever is pretty much a runner of the ball. That in my opinion is our strongest option.

Having said that, I don't think that this system would work with any other half back combination we could put together. I think that a Gale & Briggs/Jeffries would work better playing as a left and right split (ie. Myler & Briers) where they would make plays on their own side of the field. I don't think that Briggs or Jeffries are strong enough players to make this system really effective, but at the same time aren't effective enough runners of the ball to play in the way I've mentioned above.

Was thinking more in terms of our lack of succes using this move in attack as opposed to our defending against it. Our defense is a team wide issue that really needs to improve this year.

My point was that if 2 junior players & a cast-off can make it work it shouldn't be that difficult for 3 seasoned pro's.

Has this match not finished yet?

Indeed. Makes me wonder what the eck our lads get up to in training.

We were marginally better when we set up from Briggs, Jeffries and Kearney out the back. Not brilliant but perhaps less hopeless and we still couldn´t defend against it.