Quote: carl_spackler "Well I wouldn't agree with him on that. My initial disagreement was simply with your comment about practice being much easier in a way that seemed to me as if you therefore thought it was irrelevant. I thought it was relevant even if I don't necessarily agree that he should have been expected to catch it.'"
I was disagreeing with the argument that because the players practise that particular drill, Pitts should have taken the ball. Jogging back and forth whilst practising catching a ball you expect to be delivered around your ankles is appreciably different to running at full tilt and taking a ball that has already bounced at your feet in a game situation.
It goes without saying that everything is easier in training, but that only strengthens my argument that Pitts was in no way responsible for the break down of the move. I can see the point in defending Yeaman, but to try and shift the blame (or any part thereof) onto Pitts is ridiculous.
