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Rugby 'entertainment industry' - RathboneClyde Rathbone has lamented the Brumbies' conservative game plan
with which they played territory-based rugby throughout 2013,
describing as "poetic justice" their defeat by the Chiefs in the Super Rugby final
at Waikato Stadium in Hamilton, New Zealand, on Saturday.
"I think it was almost poetic justice in the sense the Chiefs won this game,
having played the most football in the last 15 minutes,"
"There is almost something wrong with rugby if you can win a final not having played much football.
I think we need to get to the place where to win a championship, you've got to play football.
The Chiefs did that, I'm not sure the Brumbies got that right from an attacking perspective.
You can get into the final, you can choke teams out in games,
to the point you can potentially win a championship doing that, and
I don't think that's healthy for the game on a whole, particularly for Super Rugby.
We're in the entertainment industry, we've got to score tries. I'm not sure the balance is right there."
"I think Jake White is coaching in a way that gets you wins," "I don't see it as a coaching flaw,
if anything smart coaches are coaching in a way that positions their team to succeed.
I think it's more a case of where the rules are, and where the interpretations are,
allowing teams to play in that way. We need to force teams into playing more."
"You're pinning teams with field position, little one-percenters," he said.
"If you're a rugby purist or traditionalist you probably don't mind.
I think going forward rugby's got to be more than that to more people;
we need to fill crowds.
"I think back to 2004 when the BRUMBIES won the championship,
it was on the back of our attacking game.
This season most our achievements were on the back of our defensive game.
From an attack perspective, I see that as where our most obvious area of improvement is.
We've got some outstanding attacking players,
I don't think we've got the best out of them in the big games.
We've played a Test-match style of football where
we strangle teams into making errors, and feeding off those."
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