Shooting Stars –  Saracens Defensive System
May06

Shooting Stars – Saracens Defensive System

Last week as part of our article on the quarter final between Saracens and Clermont I mentioned the amount of plaudits the Saracens defence had received and i wanted to come back and have a quick look at why it’s been getting so much attention. Lots of focus has been placed on the ferociousness of individual hits and the “Wolfpack” mentality they have made a key component in their defence system. In the Clermont game...

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Kicking the Habit – The need for tactical Kicking
Apr30

Kicking the Habit – The need for tactical Kicking

After their demolition of ASM Clermont Auvergne a lot of the focus has been on Saracens defensive system. Understandably so, and we’ll focus on that later on this week, but something that was equally telling for me in predicting the outcome of the game was their ability to dominate the kicking game. We all know big games can turn on very little things, and one of those occurred about 4 minutes into the game.  Saracens...

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