I posted a couple of comments earlier today about how I'd play Joseph Paulo at seven, and take advantage of his size and get him to play a very direct half game, using a lot of short-balls to the likes of Fuifui and Haye around the centre of ruck.
Just to get everything thinking footy again, I thought I'd have a bit of fun playing armchair coach, and I've described a play that you might run that would take advantage of what I believe Paulo could bring to the side as a seven.
So this is how I set this play up. Our dummy half will find Paulo at first receiver, who is going to try and engage the 1 defender. The basic play is for Paulo to turn the ball inside to the front rower on his outside. Moimoi is going to run a straight line, while Hayne hovers around the back but predominantly runs a line around the back of Moimoi.
I'd be looking to use one of our stronger front rowers - perhaps Mannah or Paulo as they have a bit of footwork here too they can employ. They're aiming to hit between the second marker and the 1st defender. We tended in the past to have Matt Keating run out of dummy half and turn the ball inside. Paulo because of his size is going to have far more success at keeping the 1 defender engaged giving your prop a better opportunity to drag a few defenders up field. However, the more dangerous plays come when the ball goes to the outside where you have Fuifui Moimoi running a straight line at the outside shoulder of the 2nd defender.
It's going to be very difficult for the second defender to stop Moimoi one-on-one. If Moimoi is able to break the line he has Hayne hovering around the back for support. However, if your playmaker sees the 3 defender moving in to help out his inside 2 defender, that's when instead we go around the back to Hayne.
Hayne now has plenty of choices to make the play depending on what the outside defenders do. If the 3 has over-committed and the 4 fails to respond, Hayne is a big chance of beating his man one-on-one. If the outside defence come in one, Hayne has the opportunity to push the ball wide where your outside backs should now have space and hopefully numbers.
Now, back to my original point - you don't necessarily need Paulo to execute this, but when you've got a lot of big bodies steaming through the centre of the park, the middle defenders need to hold their man longer which increases the chance of cracking the line by breaking a one-on-one tackle. In this situation, there isn't a lot a smaller half can do with their footwork, because there isn't a lot of space, but Paulo always has the ability to dummy and use his strength to get past his man and of course if he does Jarryd Hayne is always going to be ever-present to take advantage of that.
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i think you make a good coach
I'm going to try this with my Under 7's. I'll report back on if its successful. :-P
Seriously this website if it is not full of racists, its full of homophobes or schoolyard bullies.
Leave Paul alone and stop trying to bring people down to your level
Yeh it can, although I think it works best if your turning it inside 3 out of 4 times, so that when you do use the outside option that 1 defender is really planted. The way you stop this play is for the 1 defender to drift with the first receiver, which he can do if he has confidence that the markers are going to handle the inside-ball.
The alternative on the play if you've got say Sandow is you set it up wider, let him use his pace to drift further across the field and then increase the gap between the 1 and the markers which opens up the possibility of him using his step inside.
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