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The Dilemma
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[QUOTE="Bull Shark, post: 2401946, member: 7690"] I reckon what you're talking about has kind of gone in cycles .. Sure up until about the turn of the century (2000) the type of lead you mention there was far more significant and giant sized comebacks were rare .. Heck I remember thinking how unbelievably incredible it was when the Broncos came back from 22-8 down in the 2nd half against Illawarra one day in the early 90s. In the early part of this century during that time I mentioned in an earlier post when the average ppg was up around 48 there were some crazy comebacks and momentum swings in games .. I remember the panthers beat the wests tigers in 2000 after being down 31-8 in the second half .. And Parramatta led Melbourne 32-6 at halftime in a game in 2001 and lost .. Obviously with the amount of points that were being traded in games back then it was more conducive to big comebacks .. But imo the thing that's led to more violent momentum shifts and big comebacks in the last decade or so is the fact the game is played so much flatter in attack .. Take a look at some games from 80s and 90s and earlier and it's almost painful to watch as teams would stand so deep in attack even when hitting it out of their own half and they'd often LOSE ground and lots of it during a tackle. Nowadays teams stand so flat and just keep charging at the opposition as quickly and as flat as possible so it's almost like touch football the way an opposition team back pedals. Add to that the extra athleticism that players possess that allows them to conjour tries and create situations and miracles ect that players just weren't fit or athletic enough to do 12 or more years ago. So I guess when you also throw in the fact that referees nowadays are always checking on "TRENT" and making sure penalty counts are as close to even as possible by fulltime it can often mean that teams who're behind can get a huge roll on via back to back to back fictional 'square up' penalties that leads to fatiguing of the opposition defense and with that flat fast attack and players added prowess in attacking kicks, the points can rack up very very quickly. [/QUOTE]
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