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| Sometimes you may find that your only option is to play a hooker who cannot throw in very well. Here are three ways to get round this situation. 1. Throw to the front of the lineout Cut your losses and just play with front ball if you can. At least you might secure some first phase ball. 2. Use tap penalties or take scrums from a penalty award Don't kick to touch from a penalty kick. Tap and go or take a scrum. 3. Play with a shortened lineout Move the jumper and jumping pods if you use them between positions 2 and 4 and in the lineout. A poor throw might be covered up by good movement. A slightly crocked throw is less obvious with fewer players. Always have a player behind the jumping pod to cover an overthrow. And finally use quick throw ins as a policy from the back three!
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| Why do we make the hooker throw in? The only person who spends most of the time in scrums with his arms in totally the wrong place i.e. stretched back behind them, we then expect them to be able to throw accurately with arms pulled around to the front. Surely, as in past you could get winger/ scrum half to throw in, if you have no one else that can throw in from forwards Normally there is someone in the pack/ prop back row who can throw in/ the hooker could then be a lifter
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| There is an argument that you get your best thrower to throw in, regardless of the number on his back. It would be interesting to see how we justify only the hooker throwing in. I suppose it is a specialism that suits a certain type of player.
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Its really the same debate over who kicks goals, clears for touch from PKs etc - it tends to more frequently be the #10, but of course historically has been certainly #15, #13 ... and not that long ago international goal kicking was done by some second rows.
"Closed" skills - ones that are performed with a dead ball basically - could be done by anyone on the pitch.
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Kind of a silly premise. Does anyone have the hooker throw if he's less qualified than others? I have no hesitation putting in the best thrower, hooker or not.
In fact, our most common thrower is the SH with a player at the receiver position entering the line. The SH takes the pass off the top at pace.
Very effective.
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| The Canterbury Crusaders have a DVD devoted to said skill. Keven Mealamu explains what is required on a video on the All Blacks website. Historically the hooker was one of the shortest players in the pack and wasn't seen as being effective in the lineout, also, hookers were seen as a ball playing front five forward. None of that is relevant anymore what with lifting and the general size of forwards these days. It was a problem in the team I coach, the hooker was taught how to do it and was expected to practice in his own time. More of a problem these days are hookers who can't hook. Anyone over thirty will know what I mean.
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| A few months ago, at the start of the season, one of the forward in my U11 team came to me and asked if he could do the throw-ins. His dad confirmed the boy had spent hours and hours in the off season practicing throw-ins in the backyard. The boy was not the hooker, he had played in the second row and as a prop. He was not the tallest kid in the team, nor the shortest. But he knew how to throw much better than anyone else, and he wanted to do it, so he got the gig.
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| Good for him....... anyone who practices individual skills will become more proficient. He's also added another reason as to why he should be in the team.
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| I have decided to give the lad the trophy for "Team Player of the Year". He hasn't scored a try, or been a spectacular ball carrier, but he often passes the ball well, is the best and most unselfish player in the ruck and maul, and his work in the lineout and scrum is excellent. And he never misses a training session, always tries his absolute hardest, listens and doesn't muck around, and often thanks me at the end of training. A good lad. He deserves encouragement for putting in that extra effort. I have decided to give the hooker the "Most Improved" trophy. He had no idea at the beginning of last season, but in two years has learned some very good skills in the ruck and maul, and has a wicked fend when running with the ball. But he can't throw the ball in at the line-out for nuts. 
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But he can't throw the ball in at the line-out for nuts. Yet........... Sound like really good choices to me..........
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