look at the use of decoy runners to create gaps in the defence.

another example of bodies in motion

Wow, I bow to your knowledge. Decoy runners you say? Well I never. Its not like they were around in the 50s is it

I'm still thinking "so what"?

I saw two cars have a bump today. They were two big units. The big grey Volvo dominated the collision. The Fiat Punto was in Disneyland. The RAC had to intervene to carry the Punto off to the vehicle bin.

well as long as you keep bumping this ill add some more :

in attack tackles 1 - 3 are settlers. the idea is to get the ball to the centre of the field, to around the halfway line. often the kick will go to the corner, the attack needs to get the ball to the centre of the field to open up attacking options.

tackles 4 - 6 are when the team will put on more genuine attacking plays. being on the centre of the field they can split with the half on one side, the 5/8th on the other.

I saw something the other day in a game, one mister with the ball looked as though he was going to pass it to another mister stood at the side of him - but right at the last moment he decided he wasn't going to pass it after all and he was just pretending! Some other misters thought he had passed it and by the time they had realised that he had only pretended to pass it it was too late and he had gone through a gap..... Anybody know what this phenominom is called?

Saw another strange thing yesterday too, one fairly fast mister was running with the ball in both hands then when a really angry looking mister in a different coloured jersey tried to bash him from the side, he put the ball in one hand and then pushed him away with the other one so he couldn't get to him.....

Dally, whats going on here mate? I just can't puzzle it out......

im betting when you watch a game you just think pass the ball, run hard and thats all there is!

some people like to dig a little deeper.

heres another tip :

when teams are on the attack, one of the playmakers will stand behind the play at times and count the number of defenders on each side of the ruck. if they spot a side where they have an advantage theyll call for the ball to go to that side

Dally

I think it's admirable that you want to raise some discussion on RL tactics - I live in a non Rugby League area and I use these boards to catch up with other fans and I do want to discuss more than just gossip and slagging off each other’s players/fans/grounds etc

But what you have listed in this topic is not tactics it is the basics of how to play RL - tactics are how you adapt your game when playing a particular opposition or during a particular period of the game... this has to be discussed in context

Anybody very new to RL may read your last 4/5 posts on this thread and learn something to look out for in a game so thanks for that

Dally - are you sleeping with Paul Cullen?

That's not right even at the most basic level. I wouldn't teach that to Under 8's. And the saddest thing is that a lot of RL fans will actually think that this sort of thing is what 'tactics' consists of, and is as complex as it gets.

So, let me get this straight. The "playmaker" actually looks at what is infront of him before deciding what play he should make? Here's us thinking that they use some sort of play by numbers system and follow a premeditated script for the whole 80 mins....

Going back to your comments about driving the ball to the middle, you sure your right on this?

Its a shame the way this is going, cos this could be an interesting topic if it wasn't just you in the main trying (badly) to explain the simplest and most basic points of the game.

We got taught all sorts of systems and tactics by Walter Paul (Dad of Henry & Robbie), from the super basic upwards - unfortunately the majority of the side wasn't technically good enough to do owt with it.

Dally - your original post had a link to the show on Fox. There is a video on the site, but I can't get it to play. Do you know if it is only visible to IP addresses? (the show looks really good)

Thanks

it plays for me, maybe only for aussie viewers

the show is well worth it