Taylor
Community Leader
- Moderator
- #3,101
Too slow? Thinking too much? Thinking too long? Too daring? Unfairly treated by umps? They’re the only reasons for that, none of which positive. Luckily all bar the last are fixable.
Most of our holding the ball calls were for players who were deemed to have taken the tackle on and then not disposed correctly, this was by either leaning into the tackler or putting up an arm to attempt to fend off - whistle, free against.
You can picture it, Crowden takes the ball as the opponent is on him, tries to run through the player and the ball is spilled, whistle - free against.
That sort of applied pressure in the middle to force long bomb kicks works really well against us when we have no forward line.