Anatomy of A Try: Jonny May vs Australia October 2019
As Australia found out knock out Rugby is a cruel mistress. You can have all the ball, try to play all the rugby. But if you aren’t accurate, don’t put the points on the board when they are on offer. Well, then you simply aren’t giving yourself much of a chance, are you? Knock out Rugby changes peoples mentality. The temptation is to play 100mph for 80 minutes with the intention of blowing your opponents out of the water. But the...
The Anatomy of a Try – Elliot Daly vs Leicester December 2017
I'm going to be honest here, I'm a bit of Wasps fan. I've supported them since way back in the early 90's, when the club was based at Sudbury and you could stand anywhere in the ground you liked, just as long as you could squeeze in. It was the days of players like Rob Andrew, Steve Bates and Dean Ryan were all front and center. Rugby and Wasps have come a long way since the and been through some rough...
The Anatomy of a (No)Try – Marika Koroibete
As a coach, there are lots of things to worry about but all fall into the single category of things you can control. The ref’s and their decisions aren’t one of them so post-game analysis has to focus on two things "what did we do well and what can we have done differently"? Koroibetes no try against England, while a highly debated and controversial decision, is in fact a fantastic example of where analysis can...
Anatomy of a Try: Ollie Woodburn vs Bristol September 2016
The second playmaker is something that’s discussed ad nauseum on most rugby forum. Scroll through twitter, or a comments section, and every other rugby related post will be about how a certain team needs a 2nd play maker. So what exactly is a second play maker and what does he do? Well it’s an open answer question because some people think of the 2nd distributor as the 2nd play maker, some think of a player filling...
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...