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well not sure how rushing in helps.  if there was an over-lap, like i said was due to sam tag also rushing in. when you get the two outside backs on that side both rushing in ofcourse it is going to be 3-4 players over lap...rushing in is good when it comes off...if you try it 4-5 times in a game and it does not work for you then surely you would re-think what you are doing in defence and maybe change game plan. i dont want to be too hard on him it was his first game...was just stating the obvious that he let two tries in that could have been prevented.
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Rushing in is usually fine if you actually make the damn tackle (Quinn is normally quite good at this) - too many times the Titans' ball-runners were simply bumping off our ineffective tackles or offloading the ball.  The one on one tackling was appalling at times - we were just lucky the Titans were playing pretty crap themselves...
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but if our one on one defence was that bad, surely we need to then give our scramble defence a wrap... otherwise they'd have run up a score. 
The other thing with a side like that, the players have little to no combinations with their inside/outside man meaning the trust is not as intrinsic as it normally is with our side.
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do we have to have a bye  :(
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