The Hard Road To The Premiership

[PaulP]

Is it practical?

In reality it takes a sh1t load of effort to generate shots inside 25m and when you get them in that zone you cannot afford to waste them, if you do waste them it's demoralising to the team based on effort versus reward.

By comparison you can generate a sh1t load of shots from 50m and nobody is expected to kick them, if you get them you're a hero and if you don't it's no big deal!

So perhaps it's a bit of harm minimisation being put in place by the top dogs!

As a coach you'd be on a short life expectancy if you built a game plan to deliver goal square marking opportunities to your clunking forward only to see him burn you 50% of the time. It's not a winning, positive, or improvement strategy.

The next time you see Casboult missing a set shot, 30 out, right in front, sunny day, no breeze etc. , you will, in a very well practiced move, reach, in a pique of fury, for those three remaining strands of hair on our head. As your hand maneuvers this way and that, desperately searching those "no so green shoots" you will realize that they were in fact ripped out the last time you saw Casboult kick. Just like Saul on the road to Damascus, you will experience a blinding flash of light, of such terrifying force that it will propel from your sofa to a place you never knew existed. In this moment, you will cast your mind back to Pauly's Paddock, and you will think to yourself, "you know what - that good for nothing, hairy ar$ed primate may be onto something."