Special Question for Sasu

Sasu

I noticed something about Retallick and would like to hear your cpomments on it.

Last Saturday after Retallick came on fromn the bench - on two occassions he stood not in the line-outs - but in no-mans land somewhere between the touchline and the line-out where scrummies in extremely rare cases would stand.    I know Retallick is the tallest All Black player in the AB forward pack - but he is not really a house on fire in line out play.

My question is - did it appear to be a ploy that never really worked  or what is the reason behind it.    Despite my earlier comments - he seemed to be wasted in the position he actually took up in those to line-outs, because as far as I can remember on both occassions - the throw ins was done by the AB's.

Id like to offer my theory. ABs often flood the area in front of the backline with random stray forwards - usually in broken play but now it seems off setpiece too. Obviously it is a blatant cheat to create an obstruction for the defending team. NZ have done it for a number of years and once again refs turn a blind eye... NFLstyle blocking tactics I refer to it as...