RUGBY MATTERS

Reducing penalty sanctions may resurrect old quick-tap

BRENDAN GALLAGHER

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Bag of tricks: Les Cusworth

THERE’S been much talk recently about the demise of the dropped goal but what I want to know is whatever happened to those well-rehearsed tapped penalty drills of yesteryear?
We used to spend hours and hours practicing intricate moves at school and college. Wall-balls, one pivot, two pivot, loop and dummy, cutback, American Football passes, kick passes to clusters of four huge forwards on one touchline. ...

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