1) I would love to know who was the architect of this plan!
2) If it was Hinkley, then wow, kudos to him, and he would have redeemed himself a bit.
3) But good chance it came from Schofield, Montgomery, or even Bassett. Possibly input from Lycett, with insider knowledge of any weaknesses they had or feared.
1) Yes, so would I.
2) If Hinkley, he would have used it before, unless it just occurred to him (?). Kudos either way. He must have had a say in it.
3) My guess is Lycett who might've identified the potential weakness even before he joined your blokes.
Any team with a tall backline will be susceptible from now on.
The other KPIs that
Janus mentioned are crucial too. Win those and most teams will win the game, but that chaos ball odd-delivery was something I'd never seen so blatantly- and well-done

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This is spot-on, very good point:
it did call for the entire squad to buy into it, and to implement it it effectively
Different tactics were used to cope with wet/windy conditions, but it reminded me of our 2017 R7 vs NM in Tassie. They came out with a well-developed plan and stuck to it. We came out smug and complacent (often Crows' biggest weakness, hubris) and they absolutely belted us, 10 goals up
at qu-time 
. They out-tackled us 90-50!!