What is rugby game plans and Rugby Playing Styles

Mozart you in the past referred to Rugby Game Plans and Playng Styles so I looked up on the internet and founmd the real desdcriptin of whta the two defciptions eally entail:-

Rugby Game Plans

Rugby game plans are strategic blueprints guiding a team's attack and defense, built on core philosophies like physical dominance ("Physical Game"), structured kicking ("10-Man Game"), or fluid movement ("Motion Game"). They involve controlling set pieces (scrums, lineouts), exploiting opposition weaknesses, managing game rhythm (tempo), and adapting tactics for phases like turnovers or restarts, all while ensuring clear communication and disciplined execution.

Rugby Playing Styles

Rugby playing style blends evasion and contact, focusing on moving the ball forward by running or kicking (but only passing backward/sideways) to create space, score tries, and kick goals, with key elements including the tackle, ruck, and maul to contest possession, and team strategies like the fluid "1331" structure aiming for quick ball and mismatches to break the defensive line. Styles vary, from physical powerhouses (like South Africa's emphasis on strong forward carries) to fluid, running games (like traditional New Zealand).

Core Principles

1. Forward Movement: Advance the ball by carrying or kicking, but never pass forward; only backward or sideways passes are allowed.
2. Space Creation: The main goal is to find and exploit space, often by out-numbering defenders or making them commit.
3. Contact & Possession: Tackles stop ball carriers, leading to rucks (contested ball on ground) and mauls (contested ball with players upright), crucial for maintaining possession and restarting play.

Key Tactical Elements

1. The Fly-Half (No. 10): The "pilot," deciding whether to kick, pass, or run, directing the attack.
2. The Inside Centre (No. 12): A physical "crash ball" runner to gain yards or a playmaker, linking with the 10.
3. The Full-Back (No. 15): Covers deep, reads the game, and often launches counter-attacks from kicks.
4. Set Pieces: Scrums and lineouts are set plays to restart the game and gain possession.

Examples of Styles

1. South Africa (Springboks): Known for dominant forward play, strong carries, and a focus on fitness and physicality to impose themselves.
2. Fluid/Running Game: Emphasizes quick ball, inter-passing, and exploiting space out wide, often seen in traditional Kiwi rugby.
3. Low-Error/Territorial: Prioritizes minimizing mistakes, strong defense, and gaining territory through kicking, like modern Welsh rugby.

Modern Structures

1. 1331 Attack: A structure where forwards spread out, clearing contact quickly to create overlaps and mismatches for the backs, testing the defense across the field.

When you deal with the above is clearly based on BS self-opnoons and not on fact, If you refer ro for instatce box kxks - you should provide how many box kixks trhe S prin gbok scrumme made compared to the opposition tem - how many balls passed to the fluhalf and how many of those he kicked.

A s far as kicking is concerned in the eepriod 2012 to 2015 you vidorously defended kicks by the scrummies and flyhalfs - which you now claim is the case since 2018. When some members citicized it the defemse you used was that is "Traditional Sprinm gbok Rugby". However nobody ever said that kicking is not part of the game - it is indeed - but that is where the issue becomes complicatedm Fact is that San C arter kiccked balls mre than Morne Steyn did - but there is a major difference in what the two players achieved in the icking game. Carter was a strategic kicker that put the oppo nents under pressure - Morne's kicks were inaccurate and aimlees allowing or counte-attacks by the opposition. At his sta ge in his career Sacha kicks in the Carte style and that is wat made him different a a kicker from other SA flyhas since 2000.

What you made about the twp definitions indicate not reel analysis of matches, it is BS you dreamed up as being applicable to the Springboks. If you want to justify your statements you should abse it on facts, and provide them on site - but you never do. All is loose descriptions without eal facts and that represents prejudiced BS/ .

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I thought it was a string about game plans and playing styles, but I was amused to see it’s another string about me. Saaiman is in a dark place.

Mozart

Have ou learned anything from the above?

Nayth….I’m chagrined to say, nayth. I have a question for you, do you see the red lines under the words you type?

OK - I have corrected the typing error, Nop grow up and answer my question/

Nop? You seem to be having N yips. Golfers sometimes do when putting, but key board yips are unusual. Focus on your breathing and try using words excluding the letter N.

Still to t hic to udesand what you ctually tated about he above two issues h to be proved by stats you would not ge from ESPN BS. If you s ta te r g Sprin gboks that th e Sprin gboks u sed n y box kicks you must prov it - npt make unsbstantoaed BS,

If y ou satte like you did nurmerous times is that there is no attackin g backline play that you imly in your postings you m ust xplain how come the S prin gboks backline attack score more tries playing attackin g rug by th an w ha t h a[pened in the eriod 2000 to 2018/ Example I found that in 2018 the S prin gboks backline eld to more triss scored by the Spingboks backline than what the whole team scored in 2012,

The end result is you make claims about the above issues that is at best prejudiced BS you concocted and state as facrs on site. Yor claims cannpt eb substantiat ed by fatual statements, What uisalso a fact that imess and inacc urate kicking is a ne gative in rugby - eg C arter and Srteybn analysis of kicking - eg the Carter and Steyn exaample I referred to in my evaluation of kicking values, In the case of SA you and vitually all other members rave about is the game performances of Sacha. He kics as many time in matches - but hsi kicks is strategic and based on using kicks as strategic putting the opposition teams under pressure and does he make BS aimles and inaccurae icks or not,

You are never producing facts in your statement. An easy example is what happened in tests. In the 2015 semi-final a ainst the AB's in 2015. D u rees handled the ball 52 times dutnmg t he match - but only 9 passes went to the flyhalf and only when relieving kicks had to be made, what he did not kick the passes went in the main to loosies and other forwards and in a few cases directly to De Allende 6 times causing no defnmse problems for the opposition problems. He was a vsastly different player by 2015 campared to hsi erformances were in the period 2004 to 2011 when he retired and was brought back by Meyer after retirment. Another example was Matfield, Botha made the comment as a joke by stating that Mattfield does not always stand around in the backline - but he often hapened to be in the backline and you admitred him for that contribution - but when Du Toit happened to become part of backline attacks he is condemned by you and other posters. When players score tries and DuToit was involved in scoring of tries in 2025 you and others claim he is loafing around in the backline and when it happened that Du Toit in fact added in 2025 to more tries being scred by players ike Kwagge, Esterhuizzen and Willemse to name just a few players, To be precise in his 127 tests Matfield scored 7 tries - in his 95 tests played Du Toit scored 15 tries - but Matfield is a great - while you claim D u Toit is aa BS player.

Another example is in his tests since 2024 in 19 tests Sacha scored more tries (9) than any Sringbok flyhalf ever did in their full careers of test rugby than any other players like Pollard snd Morne did in their whole careers (8). Pollard inhis first first test for the Springboks in 2014 Pollard scored 2 tries - in the whole of 2015 and from 2018 to date Pollard ony scored 6 tries,

I nmed the above as examples of here there are diferences in playing styles leading to figures like 2024 ad 2025 the Sring boks scored more tries in tests than they did compared to other teams in the world - but you gnore he fact and implie that the Sprin gboks backline attacks does not happen.

What I am driving it is that you should proide factual information and not prejudiced BS concocted by you when you make statements on site.

Honestly Mike I couldn’t care less about your demented outbursts.

Mozart

I made sure that l do write proven facts onsite, So yout outbursts can never be taken as serious but the same time very funny making an arsedole taking over your thinking ability.