Warea-Hargreaves - "We're not soft"

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2 options Andy

1) learn to do it better/smarter so that we don't get penalised

2) keep everything as it is and continue to struggle in the middle

I think we get penalised for it because we do it poorly, and also becasue we try and do it when we're on the back foot and getting rolled in the middle

as such it looks that little bit more obvious when compared with the sides who do it well

I agree 100% there is a technique to doing it that's what people tend to overlook. We get into poor positions at the ruck and our markers for whatever reason struggle to get back and close the gap.

We have been shit at it for 3-4 years. Other teams know it so they just keep trying us out up the middle.

Having said all that I do think at times we get picked on. I've said it before, the refs train together and they watch video together. So when they talk about how shit we are in middle they take that preconceived idea into the game with them.

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I don't think soft is the right word. I don't think anyone could call any of our forwards soft.

Occasionally lazy or unfocused around the ruck would of been more apt