Murray and Colleagues Get Their Wires Crossed with Poor Lineout Calls
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IF DEFENCE decided who won and lost, Scotland would be cruising into next week with eyes on a first RBS Six Nations Championship title.
But the Calcutta Cup win was, as Frank Hadden, the Scotland coach, envisaged, a one-off. Playing without the ball does not win many international Test matches. Nor should it. The worrying aspect of Scotland's performance in Dublin, therefore, was the continuing slide of the lineout, an area of the game which used to spark fear in opposing packs and created a platform for attack after attack.See the full content of this document
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Murray and Colleagues Get Their Wires Crossed with Poor Lineout Calls
Instead of being an area of strength, it is now targeted as a weakness in the Scottish armoury and there is little doubt the Italians, led by Marco Bortolami, one of the more astute forwards in the championship, will be aiming to use the set-piece as th...
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