Quote ="Rogues Gallery"The truth is you weren't a million miles away. Wigan were the better team, BUT Lineham was twice within inches of scoring from kicks and Gidley dropped a difficlt pass when he may have scored.
Fine margins on which games are won and lost. I do wish we (as a game) would stop this endless scooting from dummy half, Wigan were almost as guilty last night, it's the most one dimensional form of rugby.'"
You're a good poster when you're not attempting to score points.
A bit like us last night I suppose.
I agree with you entirely about the current style of rugby being served up.
I suspect our own reliance on dummy half running is partly based on knowing most of our three-quarters are not especially blessed with what I regard as natural, creative rugby skills.
This style won't be enough to win finals as officials are very reluctant, probably under orders, to keep penalties to a minimum and some of the advantage we are able to gain during the regular season (God I hate that term) is negated.
At half-time (when we were winning) our group chat was all about how little rugby had been served up.
Phrases such as "this is horrible" and "no enjoyment whatsoever" were used.
Strong defence should, of course, be rewarded, but I do think some radical reform may be necessary to encourage flair, creativity and attack in general.
I've heard talk of only one marker, reducing the 10 metres, dropping the number of interchanges, etc.
But I wonder whether something as radical as reducing teams to 12 a side might be worth experimenting with.
