That's the reason why the enjoyment of the game has gone down - all teams concentrate on possession and territory. Keeping the ball, getting in your opponents half, trying to force an error or a repeat set, waiting for the defence to break down or a mistake.

Thats the general game plan of most if not all teams - and it usually delivers results; play % rugby, don't give away possession and at some point the opposition make a mistake.

Look at the majority of tries scored - almost all come from position gifted to the attack through a mistake.

This was certainly Nobles approach, play safe, get in the opposition half, force a mistake, and when we lost it was usually down to players not 'playing safe' losing the ball in the tackle, etc. That's why we never really hammered a team even when we were on top for most of a game, why we usually let a team back at us in the 2nd half, we never cut loose in attack - and possible we didn't have the players with the skill or concentration levels to do this consistently (e.g. the number of times coley/prescott lose the ball in the tackle looking for an offload).

I think in Aus, you have to work harder to create a gap, as the defence don't make as many mistakes, you can't just camp out in their half waiting for possession, otherwise you end up on the end of a 30 - 0 loss.

We have to get back to defending extremely well when we haven't got the ball and creating a real attacking threat when we do have the ball, not just for 10 mins of the game when we're in the oppositions 30 metre zone.