dolf_lundgren wrote:Our backs also don't look confident doing the basics. One of the key things Leinster do is very simple handling moves at pace and without mistakes, they are relentless and their core skills are immaculate. We still don't look to have that and it means when strike runners do come into the line they aren't at full tilt. That should be sortable.
On the whole, I think our backs look confident doing the amazing, whether its beating multiple defenders or finding space where there seems to be none or being in just the right place for one of BBM's offloads. But there are many occasions when doing the basics well serves us so much better.
Don't get me wrong, we LOVE the spectacular, we LOVE seeing VDM barrelling down the line with only a few inches of space to work with, we LOVE Lord Darcy's acrobatics and dash. But sometimes a game can be one without those things.
For me, the game was there for the taking with Bennett's run down the right from our own line. Only IF that pass had gone to hand, the game was won. He had done the hard part - the line break from deep in our 22 - but didn't nail the basic part, i.e. passing to his own team-mate and clinching the try. Yes, Burns tracked the move well, but we made it easy for him.