It would in theory

But that's just not going to happen though is it? If all teams fully adopt this as the natural form of play then Super League is going to be boring as hell.



Anyway Saints are better than than that. We don't follow, we lead.

Fed up of seeing TP and Pryce get nailed yet have the ball available, and no saitns player there to take advantage. Shaun Edwards would have a field day... Danny Mc Guire to actualy.



Kick to the wings. Off loads in gang tackles and the back up being there. Thats two Potter now has. Maybe the attacking player milks the penalty a bit more, sneakily holds down a defender on top of him whihc leads to the other defenders being slow to get off, PENALTY !

The problem we have especially in the 2nd half of this season is we don,t have any go forward (lack of props), this means most of the tackles are "surrender" ones which allows the referee and defence more time to layon. Our quick the balls dissapear and the backs receive the ball under pressure. When Cayless and Maurie provided the go forward we were up and running and gaps appearing, we need these players back pronto.

Yep you're right, offloading has to be a full team tactic with two players in close support, waiting to catch the offloaded ball. And the line waiting for the ball to come out in a split second.



It would be a very difficult tactic to get right as a counter to the flopathon. But it could really catch that defence on the back foot, especially with three or four defenders pulled in all thinking they're about to have a nice lie down for a while on top of TP.

If Daniel Anderson was here this nonsense would never have happened.



He would have been in the press calling the referee names and suggesting in passing that he always failed to control the play the ball area. We would then have had wizzy-bang quick play the balls and won by 40.



Meanwhile Potter just sits there nervously hoping no one speaks to him as he's too shy to reply.

Cruel but funny.

Clone a younger version of Wally Lewis. He had the skills to defeat any defence.

More like cruel but true

Huddersfield, in the semi, slowed us down through an awesome defence. Wrestling the player, and throwing numbers in to each tackle. It was skilful defence.



However the big problem with Super League this season, is the referee's allowing sloppy interference as a slowing down tactic. For example when we played wigan they slowed us down by flopping after the tackle, holding down, grabbing hold of a leg as the player tries to get up, and leaving a hand in when the player is trying to play the ball. I am not picking on Wigan here, as most teams are doing it when they can get away with it.



I think fair game for Huddersfield, they earn slowing the play the ball down (in the semi). However when the referee's tolerate interference and meddling at the ruck it not only makes the game more boring, but it dumbs down the game. Teams aren't needing to work at slowing the opponents down. Like Potter said, there should be a reward for good offensive play, and this means not eroding advantage by taking the at the play the ball.



If the RFL think they are helping the game by making things NRL like then its not working. We aren't any better at wrestling, or turning the player; the referees are just more tolerant of players doing whatever they can to stop a player getting up to play the ball quickly.

Sign John Hopoate.

Everyone would get up very quickly!

But are they even making it more NRL like? Hasn't the NRL speeded up somewhat with the two refs initiative?