Anatomy of a Try – Dougie Fife vs France February 2015
View image | gettyimages.com Scotland have endured some tough times over the last decade consistently vying for the wooden spoon alongside Italy. A stark contrast to their glory days in the 90’s where they took a GrandSlam a World Cup semifinal and closed the decade out with the last Five Nations trophy ever. Multiple coaches later Scotland have settled on Vern Cotter as the man to restore their form. Widely regarded as...
Anatomy of a Try – Chris Wyles vs Munster January 2015
View image | gettyimages.com European Rugby can really bring out the best in some teams, and last weekend Toulon, Bath and Saracens all delivered some outstanding rugby. To be honest we could have looked at any number of brilliant tries. However we're going to have a little look at Saracens 1st try by Chris Wyles and Saracens break the Munster defence down using their attacking structures. Saracens are often labelled a...
Anatomy of a Try – Nathan Hughes vs Sale January 2015
View image | gettyimages.com First of all Happy New Year, and what better way to start it than with an example of some outstanding attacking play resulting in lovely try. So we’re going to have a quick look at a brilliant try from Wasps against Sale from round 12 of the Aviva Premiership. The try is scored from a well worked strike move off first phase ball which is pretty much the holy grail of...
Anatomy of a Try – Ben Ransom vs Sale December 2014
View image | gettyimages.com We've been a way for a few weeks, providing Wallabies analysis for the excellent Green and Gold Rugby, but what better way to come back than to look at a superb try from the last round of European Rugby, specifically Ben Ransom’s superb team effort. Rugby at its best is a simple game, and when played properly a well timed pass or a good line hit at pace from deep is impossible to defend....
Anatomy of a Try – Nick Cummins vs Australia November 2014
#458236394 / gettyimages.com The Wallabies vs Barbarians game was always going to be a game that could have gone either way – dire or great. Thankfully this was an occasion were both teams took the Barbarians ethos to heart and slung it about. How much we read into the Australian team from this is still to be determined, it was far from test match Rugby, but two Australian players that stood out for me on the day were...
The Anatomy of a Try – Kyle Eastmond vs Leicester September 2014
Bath have long been an attractive team to watch, but over the last couple of seasons their attacking philosophy has really taken things to a new level and on Saturday they literally destroyed Leicester, inflicting a rare 45-0, 5 try humiliation as they set about playing attacking Rugby from everywhere on the park. We'll take a look at their attacking shape later in the week but for now we'll focus on...
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