Gordon D'Arcy
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I got turned over on the first one.
And he gets the ball, he does a little dummy and then just powers into contact.
And I'm just looking at all of the players around him.
Very few players are looking at what Ronan Keller is doing.
And to me, that is a real issue.
As they're going, you can't be thinking the next phase when the ball, and then they get turned over.
So that I just think is a really good insight into how players are playing the game at the moment.
The reason why I mentioned NRL is they send a Willie Mason.
They send him up on a tap ball and the whole other 12 players know that that's what he's doing.
He's going to carry.
They don't have to send anyone to the rook.
So they can actually get set up for the next play.
And they do that whole pivot passing, front door option, somebody at the back.
But the key difference with that is they're moving when they get the ball.
So when you're the first receiver, second receiver, third receiver, whatever that might be, everybody is in motion.
And it's a key difference between what the union game has taken from rugby league.
We've taken this, oh, we'll do this, the pivot plays, I've started calling them the dead pass, but it's static, which I think is a fundamental difference between what we've take, what rugby league do versus what rugby union is doing.
And I think it's something we have to think about and should be thinking about very, very differently.
But where has this pod system come from?
It's come from Rugby League to create that second wave.