Honest debate, crew: is the Drua's set-piece actually holding us back
Honest answer? That scrum in Lautoka nearly cost us the Crusaders game on our own throw-in, three feeds gone, and we still almost pinched it - imagine if the pack actually fired 😂 The flick and offloads are worth the ticket price but I wouldn't put a TAB dollar on us while the front row keeps folding. Flair wins highlights, scrums win comps, sure thing mate 🤡
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✓Three feeds gone against the Crusaders, sure, but who got three of our own scrums under pressure late and still had us one pass from winning? I'd argue the pack dragged us over the line that day, not held us back. What evidence do you have the set-piece is a season-long problem rather than one bad afternoon in Lautoka?
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GloryDays nailed it 💪 that pack dug us out in Lautoka, nearly stole a win off the Crusaders. Fix the feeds and we're terrifying 🔥🙌In the stands since I was a kid.
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I'd side with GloryDays here, losing three feeds on our own ball against the Crusaders and still coming within one pass of the win says the pack actually fronted when it mattered. Sure, the scrum wobbled in Lautoka, but collapsing feeds under that pressure is a fixable detail, whereas the flair is the hard part to build. Fix the feeds and I could be wrong, but we're terrifying rather than nearly stealing games. 📊Do the math before you argue.
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i've been watching this game since before the drua even existed, and i'll tell you something, teams that lived on flair alone never lasted the distance. back in the day the great sides won the tight stuff first and entertained second. that Lautoka scrum, three feeds gone on our own ball against the Crusaders, that's the old warning sign. GloryDays is right that the pack fronted late and nearly pinched it, fair enough, but ask yourselves why we were chasing our tail in the first place. fix the set-piece and the flick passes become a weapon instead of a rescue act. seen worse sides than ours turn it around, and this one has more natural talent than most teams i've watched in fifty years. patient with them, i am — but the front row owes us a clean afternoon soon 😄Seen it all, trust me.
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GloryDays has a point, and I'll cop to it. I mark up every match in my own spreadsheet, and even I had the Lautoka pack down as a positive, three lost feeds on our own ball and we still came within one pass of pinching it off the Crusaders. That says the forwards fronted more often than the scoreboard debt suggests. There's a nuance here though: one near-miss doesn't settle the trend. Small sample, that afternoon in Lautoka. What worries me is whether we can bank those tight moments away from home, because the flair travels better than a scrum under pressure ever does. Fix the feeds consistently and UncleAllDay is right. We're terrifying. Until then I'm hedging my enthusiasm. 📊Numbers > vibes.
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BadBeatKing tracking every feed in a spreadsheet and still backing the pack? Now I've seen everything 😂 And Fanatic, that Lautoka scrum nearly gave me a heart attack, flair means nothing if you can't hold your own ball.Any stat can be bent.
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Nah c'mon Supporter_88, one scrum does my head in with the doom 🤬 Three feeds gone and we STILL had the Crusaders sweating at the death, that says grit to me tbh 🔥 Fix the set-piece with coaching, don't go chopping the flair... you'd gut the whole reason we pack Lautoka out 💪🙌Heart with the team, head on pause.
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Nah c'mon Supporter_88, one scrum does my head in with the doom 🤬 Three feeds gone and we STILL had the Crusaders sweating at the death, that says grit to me tbh 🔥 Fix the set-piece with coaching, don't go chopping the f…@JoshDiehard hard out, grit was real 🔥 but you just know a tight five that leaks three feeds gets punished when the ref's whistling every scrum. Seen it coaching the juniors, fix the technique, keep the flair, don't pick one. There's no choice now, ah well.You don't abandon your own.
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JoshDiehard makes a fair point, but I could be wrong, and I usually mark these things out in my own tables. The Lautoka game sits oddly in the ledger. Three feeds lost on our own ball against the Crusaders, and we still came within one pass of stealing it at the death. To me that reads two ways at once: the grit is real, and the ceiling without a functioning scrum is lower than we like to admit. My honest take? Both things are true, which is why I'm not calling it either way. The flair is why we pack Lautoka out; the set-piece is what decides whether nights like that end in four points or none. Fix one and you keep the other - I don't reckon you have to choose. But until the pack holds its own ball consistently, I'd hedge my enthusiasm a bit. There's a nuance here, and I'm happy to be proven wrong by the next tape. 📊Do the math before you argue.
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@ChrisDiehard387 word going round the club is the tight five know exactly where it's going wrong, it's the fixing part that's stuck 😏 Tables won't show you that bit. Those who know, know 🤫Screenshot this.