What's the Solution for a Game Without Tries? Pass

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YOU COULD be forgiven for stocking up on canned goods after glancing at the pages of the press last week which offered universal doom and gloom. "What's gone wrong with rugby?" screamed one newspaper while another headline echoed the sentiment, "What's wrong with rugby?" A broadsheet offered its readers "Five ways to get the game up and running", because apparently everyone agrees on one thing, rugby is in crisis.

Kicking predominates and skills are diminishing at the same speed at which the players are growing. Gym monkeys have created our very own planet of the apes and the collisions they produce are resulting in vast numbers being sidelined by catastrophic injuries. The breakdown is a mess, no one can score tries and the punters are fed up being fed offal masquerading as a dynamic and entertaining sport. I paraphrase of course but it's all there.

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What's the Solution for a Game Without Tries? Pass

They have a point. The international game is dominated by kicking. According to the International Rugby Board's stattos South Africa managed just 43 passes when beating New Zeal...

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