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It’s time to look at the line-out drive

It was interesting to hear Graham Henry, the venerable New Zealand coach who ended almost a quarter of a century of silver-ferned hurt by guiding the All Blacks to a world title in 2011, tearing into modern-day Union’s obsession with the close-range line-out.
Lest we forget, Henry’s side beat France in a tourniquet-tight final in Auckland by scoring from a – wait for it – close-range line-out. Does that make him a hypocrite? Hardly. That New Zealand move, finished off by the prop Tony Woodcock, was down to analysis, speed of thought and clever execution rather than muscle tonnage and organi...

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