Quote: Bombed Out "I'm not buying that, a rugby team not coached to be aggressive in defence.
It's a deliberate tactical ploy we've employed through the last few seasons, hold the defensive line and let them come to us.
I've also been frustrated with this method.'"
Well the only people who know for certain are the coaching staff and players.
Way back in 1994 when I did my coaching badges the official coaching manual, written by Phil Larder, stated that one of the tactics that RL had adopted from the NFL was gaining ground in defence by aggressively moving forward on defence and forcing the opposition back.
Though that may be a long time ago I do not know any team that has since decided to move away from it and deliberately concede ground in defence for the reasons I outlined above.
I would therefore be astonished if Radford had decided to innovate and deliberately adopt such a strategy.
Maybe someone could ask him in a post match interview.