I think it's difficult to get the blend of players right to make this a successful style, and probably even harder to sustain.

For historical precedent, the Widnes side from about 1988 to the World Club Challenge in 1989 is a good example. The ace in the pack if you'll pardon the pun was Derek Pyke at prop. He'd be introduced after about half an hour during which Joe Grima had played as a battering ram. Pyke was one of the best offloaders around at the time and defences just couldn't contain their style of play.

After Pyke left, they brought in Les Holliday as a replacament, but the good times had gone by then.

Very underated by some Leeds fans still who don't appreciate how good he still is. IMHO he's the one we'll miss most when out of all of the 'golden generation'.

Tbf, the support player tag is a lazy accusation. Even when he was scoring try's for fun in his early days he was often scoring tries off support play when it was actually him who created the original break for somebody else.

Some Wigan fans, in particular, have an unhealthy dislike of him. The fact that he is still a danger contributes to the continued stick he gets

Not a good understanding of the modern game as per Hims post.

If you tackle round the legs every time as suggested you'd give away massive yardage and quick PTBs every set, probably with plenty of penalties for stopping the attacking player getting up. I do think that more halfbacks ought to try it though, as its an effective way of bringing down a bigger man.

It was interesting watching SBW against the Wallabies last week. The Wallabies seemed to deliberately tackle him round the legs. They gave away a few yards doing it, but avoided him sucking defenders into the tackle and getting a pass away - made him look pretty average in fact (although its partly because he really isn't a great centre).

Just the two knock on tries tonight then.