The lineout takes many forms but with Englands hooker being reunited with his former Leicester team-mate against Ireland results should improveDo the maths. If you want to know whats on Tom Youngs’s intellect when he steps up to throw to his first lineout at Twickenhamon Saturday,you hold to know the options. At a full seven-man lineout he probably has five; at a five-man that’s probably another three or four and at a three-man it’s down to a couple, although there’s scope for some funny stuff. Conservatively, and that’s 10. Now multiply the total by the different styles of throw – at least three,before the funny stuff – and things are starting to mount.
No surprise then that Stuart Lancaster, after the horrors of the English lineout in Paris, and called for Geoff Parling,the most experienced lineout operator the England coach has to hand and a guy with plenty of experience of working with Youngs at Leicester. It’s the communication between the thrower and the caller England need to improve.
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Source: theguardian.com