Casboult to CHB

[Thryleon]

The problem with that Thry is that, in our game, the rules change annually (and are applied differently throughout a season) and what may have worked five years ago won’t work now.

  I have mentioned that before, and not to dredge up too much old territory, the rule changes are to negate very specific tactics, and not to negate 100% of in game tactics.  i.e. starting positions.

There is nothing to say you can't go to a back 7 after the ball is kicked, by simply having people move accordingly.

All coaches would have spent the off-season developing gameplans to accommodate the new rules.  Some will work well, others will have to be adjusted or abandoned.  I hope that Bolts and his offsiders have come up with a gameplan that works well and is within our players’ capacity.

I disagree with this.  The hands in the back rule meant that people worked out that using a forearm was ok, and worked around it accordingly.  These tactics are not that specific to be a game plan built upon them.

Of course most sports draw on other codes for ideas and inspiration but to say that inventing new techniques is bollocks is to deny the capacity for original thought that defines our species.

There is a difference between inventing a game plan or applying a game plan, and using a tactic to exploit a rule.

one is what forms how you approach a match, the other is situational.

THAT is where poo pooing any game plan is fraught with danger.