We just ran an orange, with our #4 taking"1 ball". The ruck is cleared fast and 9 is ready to pick. We have blue right set and ready.
Defense set up is still very good.
Notice our #12 has identified a counter ruck threat here and committed to the ruck.
The orange traffic cone is our first ruck, the blue cone is our previos ruck
in more ways than one
in more ways than one
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