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Flooding the zone with both the weak side wing and fullback leaves you vulnerable
If one were to really flood the back line by bringing in the weak side wing AND fullback (off a scrum), who would you recommend using to cover for kicks on turnover ball? I'm thinking the blind side flanker could loop around to do it, but then you lose his services at the breakdown. Thoughts?
Baird,
There are many variables here as it will depend on the strengths of your team - is the Blindside capable of catching a high ball and kicking or running from deep?
If not then another player should cover.
Normally, either Blindside or No 8 would cover but there is a need to be flexible to maximise your teams strengths and weaknesses.
It will be interesting to see what other coaches think.
I hope this helps you.
Simon
In this situation, once the ball is moved on beyond the 10, and turned over, I'd prefer to see the 10 & 8 get back, leaving the 7 still loose. My reasoning is to offer 2 options, a kick or ball carry.
So many variables, depends who initially takes the ball into contact, if its one of the centres, you may have wings and FB able to track back, in which case you want the 7 & 8 in there countering at the breakdown.................
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