Quote ="RebelRebel"I didn't form my opinion on scrappage on the basis of the Huddersfield v Bradford game alone, ta, and I was replying to Haywire, who suggested we should learn how to use it as an effective tactic. It's not an effective tactic, IMO, and if it's the only one you have when you start the game, then you should be on the end of a decent hiding by the end of it.
Rather than learn how to use this negative tactic effectively, our Scrap Management Policy should focus on how to exploit a team that uses this tactic and hand them what they deserve. As I stated in another post, IMO there are more effective ways of showing commitment and leadership on the field when things aren't going your way than starting a scrap.'"
Don't think anybody was suggesting that this should be our sole tactic when starting the game?
The point is that the complexion and momentum of both games seemed to change significantly at the time of the scrapping - and I would hazard a guess (without checking for certain) that the scoreline 'post scrap' favoured the teams who where loosing at the time. In my opinion Huddersfield where almost dead and burried before the Semi/Crabtree incident, and that gave them the lease of life that gave them the chance of winning - as it happens I think time beat them in the end and had there been another 10 mins in the game they would have pipped Bradford. I also reckon that the last 25 mins or so (when this tactic was being used) was 12-12 in terms of score, at a point when you could have reasonably expected us to run away with the game.
The point about knowing how to use this tactic was that we need to know which games to use it in, and the fine balancing act of when to use it (if at all) - how extreme do you go? Its a fine line between general thuggary and playing this type of game - and I suggest (as TRB does) that if we can get this delicate combination right we could find a way to get ourself out of a hole when our other tacticts aren't working.
after the bit about only seeing the one match. 
