Jim

They're not looking to stay square.

They're not looking to really engage defenders too much.

They're looking to get the ball out to the wide channels or wherever the space is in Peno's hands, in Bielbares' channel.

I don't know if you noticed the first try.

Peno gets a bit of stick, doesn't he, for maybe his casual attitude around the rugby pitch and maybe not his work rate.

So if you look at it, he parks up.

The space is all on the open side.

He sort of parked up behind the ruck, behind Jalibert, sees that Louis Bielbarré is out the back of the pod, gets on his bike, creates that extra number, and ends up actually making the difference in that try.

And I just thought they're a brilliant team because they're not bothered about possession.

And, you know, they give the possession away quite a lot because of the way they play.

They offload the chips over the top from Jalibert, the risky offloads.

But they've got so much firepower that they don't need to be that good technically.

They just need to get Bielbare, Peno, Rayassi, Mo'afana, these guys on the ball.

And when you've got a nine, who is as good as anybody in the world right now, who just glues everything together and is seven and a half out of 10 every single week, you know, they're a tough team to beat.

So on the first one, I think it was a snapshot of Jalibert's game yesterday.

You look at how many times he sort of carried the ball off Lukaku around the rucks and those little short lines, and he's not worried about the outside space.

But when you play with a 10 like him, you need a nine like Lukaku because you know the ball's not going to be moved all the time and get the centers in the play all the time.

So you need a nine who's just going to get the ball up and away to his forwards or to the white channels as quickly as possible.

So they work each other really well.

And again, that goes a bit back to that, you look at their possession stat, it was like 30 odd percent, wasn't it, yesterday.