| Kick-offs -We look at the new tendency of kicking the kick-off deep into the triangle behind the forwards. |
" I know that the Blue Bulls are doing this for quite a while with their fly-half, Derick Hougaard, but suddenly some the teams in the Tri-nations is using this deep kick-off and from what I have seen, with some mixed results." - Jan Oberholzer |
| The kick-off triangle behind the 22m line |
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| Video Clip of the kick-off |
Advantage of kick-off method: 1) The ball lands behind the forwards who are waiting for the kick-off and if there is a ruck they must run back and do defensive rucking. 2) If the kick-off team puts enough pressure on the receiver he can only drive forward, with a resulting ruck in his 22m area, or he can kick the ball out. Both are to the advantage of the kick-off team. Disadvantage:
on the receivers they can kick the ball back into the kick-off team's half or a good running back-line can use quick hands to run the ball back at them. |
| We think that this kicking-off method can be combined with the conventional methods and it can be fruitfully be incorporated into any coach's game-plan. . |
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