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Can someone please provide a basic but definitive description of this defensive system?? I've read two different interpretations, which are similar but not the same. Any opinions would be welcomed too.
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Hi,
I'm digging back in my memory now but the system as I recall it was, from a scrum, the 7 attacking the outside shoulder of the 10, the 8 following but a little deeper, if the 10 passed, the 7 (the lead) followed the ball and the 8 (the scrape) continued following, remaining a little deeper for the cut back. The 6 ran a banana to cover the midfield insertion.
I think we've all evolved into something a little more specific and targeted but as a basic system it has merits.
Hope this is what you meant and hope it helped.
Pat
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The version I remember-and am sure I read in an RFU Technical Journal-went like this...
The defence lines up slightly offset-so they are inside the attackers' inside shoulders. They move up at speed, diagonally at the attacking line. If the first attacker passes, then the first defender changes the angle of their run, aiming at the gap between the first and second attacker. The aim is to cut off the inside attacker, stop the inside ball, push the ball to the outside (a la Drift and Up and Out), and create a situation with 2 defenders on 1attacker. The second defender either tackles or moves between the second and third attacker, and so on..
But everyone I know looks blankly at me
I didn't dream it did I???
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As I recall, there was a third element ("Trail"?).
The idea was that a defensive unit could be assembled on the fly, anywhere on the pitch, with the first defender -- Lead - pressuring the ball carrier inside-out. When a 2nd defender arrives - Scrape - he tells Lead to push out to the next gap/attacker. I don't remember what Trail's role was.
I do remember seeing one team implementing this very aggressively from the scrum, with 10/12/13 starting in a bunch and pressuring the ball carrier, pushing out with each pass, trying to get two defenders on the ball carrier while preventing any possibility of a cutback or inside pass.
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There seem to me many variations on this defence, although they all follow a theme. All of the variations seek to create 2 v 1 situations in favour of the defence, and they all seek to stop a the inside pass by placing defenders in the way. I have found what I think is the source I was trying to remember. It details a defence system that I feel falls into the Lead and Scrape family, and is very much like I remember:
http://www.coaches.nswrugby.com.au/NSWRugbyCoaches/_Downloads/Documents/01.3_-_Defence_The-Waratah-Way_[NSWRU_Coaching_Article].pdf
It seems like an easy step up from the man to man we used last season, and hopefully a lot more effective...
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