This is an excellent post - thanks. I saw that Wellington game too and grimaced as Love threw it away.
Making an accurate overloading decision in the heat of a line break is a complex set of skills. Having the intent to promote the ball with the right skills but a cool head to only do so at the right time is elite. Hoping Sititi being back helps here too.
He’s no doubt a full time rugby geek, but this is an online rugby forum so we’re all a bit guilty of that too .
Is it good take that the pop pass / offload high continuity game used to be the way the game was played down here (NZ) but isn’t so much now and the preference is for a quick ruck?
Is it deemed too risky / inaccurate?
I think the point that even a really quick ruck reduces the likelihood of scoring dramatically is a really interesting one.
Perhaps it’s like the ‘stale domination’ in football that plagued Arsene Wenger.
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