JonnoTheGreat wrote:
The complete inability of Sneyd to even try to create anything with a team completely at his mercy shows exactly why he'll never play for a top club here or in the NRL.
I'd say quality half backs who've ever played the game would have more in their locker than just cluelessly booting it into touch with their sides ahead by plenty and the opposition having already clocked off.
Sneyd's kicking played a big part in them "clocking off." It choked the life out of Catalans. And Sneyd created lots of stuff on the night. It was a clinic in how to close out a game in knock out rugby. He slowed everything down to his pace and controlled every aspect of that second half.
Changing the subject away from Sneyd for a moment. Early in the thread someone mentioned Catalans tactic of trapping the ball in the scrum to try to win a penalty. I don't know if anyone has noticed it before but for years (perhaps even since Radford took over) we have a system where the scrum half will raise his arm and then drop it to indicate to his teammates that the ball is out. I don't remember us conceding penalties for offsides at the scrum whilst doing this. Indeed Catalans tried it last night a couple of times and it was fruitless. However I can't remember ever seeing another team use the same thing, which I always find surprising because it works so well.
