Eddie O'Sullivan
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Which they nearly did.
That's a really good observation because you're right in pointing that out.
I think Toulon believed that they got width on their attack, get people out wide into space and they could throw long passes into the wide spaces.
They would get round the corner.
No, doesn't work like that.
That was a really bad plan.
Now, the stuff at the end was kind of, they played off the cuff.
Chabonnet's break was a moment of brilliant feet, got round someone.
But just go back to the broader picture here.
Like, the trouble with the long passes in the air so long, the hang time, that it suits the Blitz defence.
They either come up and they crucify the receiver or they pick it off and they go over the length of the field.
So I think that's why they were so confident on Saturday.
Toulon's attack plan was really not a good attack plan.
Against the Blitz defence, you can throw one long pass
And that's usually the first pass.
And the second one's the killer.
That goes out the back.
A short pass to the runner.
And actually, you saw, worryingly, Bordeaux did that to Bat for one of their first tries in the weekend.
Bat got narrow.