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Attack, Attack and More Attack
The notion of the contest is becoming more difficult for the defensive side to manage in all areas of the game. Nick Bishop explores how ...
How the repeat involvement theory is stacking up for number 9’s
The use of the “spare man” in the backline has been debated since the dawn of the professional era. Using France’s current defensive syst...
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Restarting the game from underneath your own posts makes a huge territorial difference, compared to a drop-out from y...
Uno de los problemas mas dificiles en el Rugby moderno es la defensa Rush o Rush defence. El analista de video Nick ...
Analyst Nick Bishop spots some Springbox innovation in the Lions series of games where the pattern of play was both c...
One the most difficult problems for coaches to solve in the modern game is the rush defence. Analyst Nick Bishop loo...
What is the best way to avoid the scrum penalty/reset quicksand, and create usable attacking ball? Analyst Nick Bish...
The pick-and-go is often neglected, at least in field positions outside the opposition 22. Analyst Nick Bishop takes...
The early evidence is that Test rugby is proving to be stubbornly resistant to the 2020 law changes, which were desig...
Defence coach Shaun Edwards has been around the game of Rugby Union for a long time. He has a history of teaching a ...
It may just be the end of an era. The days of the penalty goal as the primary means of scoring in Rugby may be coming...
Following on from last week’s article, Nick takes a look at the different set of refereeing priorities which emerged ...
It is not often that you can say, with confidence, that the UK is leading the world in rugby innovation. It is happe...
While a great deal of time is spent, and rightly so, on improving the speed of ball delivery from a ruck, it is just ...
