Some thoughts on Englands attack. www.thedeadballarea.com/englands-att...

🌹England Rugby Attack: Under Jones good to very good but began to decline 2021 - 2022. Improving again now under Borthwick. BUT Defence: Problems started in 2020 and increased to the point where Jones was sacked. Now as bad as it was in the days of Robinson/Ashton/Johnson. #SixNations

Took another look at some Svns play. This time a set piece from Australia Women to put Dennis away for a cracker vs NZ. https://youtu.be/nPGQz-fNnrI?si=7EHaD8rjE2kS7_Nn

This is really worth following. Analysis by Simon on the bookies accuracy vs the teams performance (kind of)..

Quick Look at Brakes try vs France in the Perth Svns Semi Final outstanding skills from the Black Ferns. youtu.be/kEmH4f5fD18?...

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Rugby is trending away from multi-phase play and more towards starter plays. Against Italy, Wales had 17 line-outs from which to launch attacks. Here’s what happened at ever single one. 🧵 — 1. Italy disrupt, a few pick and goes, Wales kick

Ok, slightly late this week, as had a lot on but 6 Nations Squad Composition by Caps. First Up England vs France (we'll come back to this). 1/

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Shane Williams... there has to be numbers, someone needs to step up and say right let's have 2 passes and have a go! Getting paid for that sh*te!

Fantastic piece of analysis by Carrick!

Full Contact.... the "conversational interviews" are appaling. Just ask a question, and let them answer dont pretend they are sat with their partner chatting like this.... Awful!

Not gonna lie, Fantastic 4 trailer looks great. How i hoped it would look.

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#AutumnNationsSeries kicking statistics 792 kicks in 18 games Most frequently used kick? Yes, that's right, the box-kick: 290 (37%) But there's one huge surprise, marking perhaps a possible shift in exit strategy. The @springboks.bsky.social haven't contributed much. #Georgia, however 1/

You won't find better kicking stats and analysis than Jacek's.

Ben Curry and Ben Earl have taken precisely zero line-outs between them this season for their clubs. Here's a piece on insert lifting, a tactic that is often totally missed by television coverage and might well be key to England's strategy this weekend. www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/...

Spoke to some referees about refereeing Maro Itoje and what sort of England captain he will be. 📊 Stats illustrating risk v reward 🥷 Properly sneaky stuff at the line-out 💬 How demeanour compares to predecessors 📏 Why new laws might temper penalties www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/...

My preview of the 2025 Six Nations. Have a read, so you can make fun of my predictions when they're all proved badly wrong in a few weeks. hugomongoose.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/s...

Before #GuinnessM6N kicks off, I'll have something for you Detailed kicking statistics from #AutumnNationsSeries based on nearly 800 kicks analysed 1. Kicking profiles: contestable %, 50/22, under pressure and much more 2. Brand new aerial contest database as #Tableau dashboard

So head to head this is how the squads stack up for Round One of the 6Nations. Bigger and higher equals more caps, you can see the clusters of caps where teams maybe have many mid-tier cap experience. Here France vs Wales. 1/

Mens 6 Nations Kicks off with France vs Wales. For Round one: Ireland will field the most experienced Squad with 1190 caps between them. Scotland the next with 842m followed by Italy with 739, England - 649, Wales - 628 and France at the back with 544. 1/

Jordie Barrett really has been excellent since joining Leinster. Easy to overlook how good he is at international level but the fact he stands out in a team like this tells you everything.

Zebo on co-Comms is exceptionally bad. /theend

My take for @dailymaverick ahead of the final round of the Champions Cup pool phase, where SA teams are scrapping for survival rather gunning for home advantage in the playoffs. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

Sorry for the radio silence, works and life has been crazy. And haven't had the urge to post much due to that. New Video up though so there is that. :D

Quick Look atGlasgow Warriors opening try vs Racing 92. Racing make a big mistake by moving Gibert to defend at 13, Glasgow ruthlessly exploit it by flooding his channel and making him indecisive. 1/

Blitzing or dropping is the standard optimisation problem football 🏈defensive co-ordinators face. It seems like #rugby defensive coaches have started asking the very same question. An example from #AutumnNationsSeries: #England sent 3 players to pressure #Japan 's Takuro Matsunaga. 1/

Saracens vs Saints, what a bonkers game. Saints really need to learn to protect their possession better, it is fine attacking from everywhere, but taking the steam out of a side like Sarries is important and you do that by playing through the ruck defence (which Saints did on 2nd half).

Sorry been absent been fighting a cold of great magnitude and also prep for Christmas.

Question: Do you prefer short sharp analysis videos (1 - 2 minutes max), or long 10-15+ minutes deep dives into a specific subject (like a teams defence) trying to unpack as much as possible?

Great try from the USA to turn the Cape Town Semi Final on its head and wrench momentum away from the Australians. USA’s defence is intelligent, watch how they box in the Australian edge attack which brings the attackers in to resource the ruck. 1/ *had to split video for BSKY

That's not a yellow. It's a red. Poor decision imo Stade vs Sarries game.

Weather was as important as the players but pretty solid from Sarries to be fair. Slightly disappointed as it was against Bulls who I supported when I lived in Pretoria.

Just saw the Arnold/Gizzard incident. Appalling - would imagine a lengthy ban is coming.

Eykin, Flats, and Warburton might just be the best comms team on TV right now. I'm a huge fan of Kay, but these guys have fantastic chemistry. TBF, for the first time in a while, I can't think of any poor comms teams (Premiership).

Aussie attack really frustrating to watch today. Appreciate the weather/moisture but there has been some poor decisions in attack. Number of opportunities overlooked for straightening, or contact.

This is excellent from Brendon.

I've seen that piece by the BBC selecting a Lions XV claiming it's 'stats driven', and to be honest I think it lacks rigour from the numbers side. What follows is not a dig at any of the players in the piece or what country they're from. This is entirely my nerdery in action, so bear with me.

Boks won 11/13 Tests while changing starting XV on a weekly basis. Took a closer look at the method behind the supposed madness of selecting 50 players and various combos. Numbers are incredible. Plain to see how Rassie is building depth in every department www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2024...

sorry been a bit quiet on here this week - had some leave to go an help with some charities here in Jordan, back home now so about to jump back on the analysis bandwagon :D

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DCMS need to get involved in the RFU scandal (and it is one). A year on from their inquest into the demise of 3 clubs and now RFU hand out a 350k bonus and up his wages to £1.1m. That simply has to be challenged when the sport is asphyxiating elsewhere. committees.parliament.uk/work/1607/sp...

Ireland Loosehead mins in 2024 Porter (28 yrs old) started all 10 games playing 624 mins out of a possible 800. Avg 62 mins per game. Healy (37) 8 bench apps for 118 mins average 15 mins per game O'Toole (26) 1 game v Fiji 33 mins Loughman (29) 1 game v Italy 25 mins

Taken from @overthehillprop.bsky.social’s X page. Farrell forced into making changes more than giving opportunities.

£1.1m buys a lot of fake tan!

The RFU will pay Bill Sweeney £1.1million this year — a record for a chief executive at a British sports governing body — at a time when Twickenham is braced for record losses and redundancies www.thetimes.com/sport/rugby-...

Bill Sweeney's Christmas bonus: £358k The RFU's funding to each Championship club ('23/24): £150k

Feels about right to me.

I've finally got around to making a feed out of my #Rugby Analysts & Stats starter pack. So if you want somewhere to have a quick dive into that end of the game, just pin it to your feed list! I plan on doing the same with my other starter pack soon, so watch this space! bsky.app/profile/did:...