Ok! Who started this?

[stormbati]

Every side look the same in attack. The Dragons and Storm do it the best I suppose. Fullback sweeping around the back then it's just second man play or short ball/ dummy and run/fullback cuts out to winger.
I know Melbourne were really good at this but who started it? Was it Brisbane in the early 2000's? Or has this always been in the game?
Some times teams are lined up right across the park and start it.

 

[Elia_Tuqiri]

Broncos.

 

[attila_the_gorilla]

K. Hunt was very good at coming into the line and creating the overlap. When he started doing it, he was pretty much the only fullback who did it.

 

[Raiders_Premiers]

Broncos under Wayne Bennett

 

[Dragon]

Newtown

 

[Charlie124]

yep, Donkeys

 

[Raiders_Premiers]

as Phil Gould has pointed out, it's the most boring and overused play in the game

 

[Charlie124]

I'd take boring and overused every day of the week if it brought the same results as the Broncos and *Storm have seen over the last 10 years

 

[Noa]

Broncos, when Locky was at Fb.

 

[gUt]

Would you rather a game have 20 of these or 20 bombs

 

[CliffyIsGod]

Manly the king of this with Glenn Stewart, Lyon and Brett Stewart involved.

 

[Ronnie Dobbs]

Brisbane. Bellamy took it to Melbourne.

 

[gUt]

Bellamy added the short, flat ball to the front man variation.

 

[Ronnie Dobbs]

Bellamy added the short, flat ball to the front man variation.

Indeed he did. Was a gem in 06 when they started using it.

 

[1 Eyed TEZZA]

I swear iv seen footage involving Grahame Langlands performing the same move.

 

[bottle]

I swear iv seen footage involving Grahame Langlands performing the same move.

Exactly. There's nothing new in the zoo. Things come in and out of vogue is all. Fullbacks running into the backline to create an extra man has been the way of the world for eons. Too many youngsters watching the game seeing it all for the first time. 'Refs are the worst ever', 'Best ever dive', 'Worst decision ever'. In twenty years time you'll still be seeing nothing revelatory. It's just either done good or bad.

 

[moik]

Mick Hagan, Matthew Rodwell and Robbie O @ Newcastle. Not sure if they invented the move but they perfected it.

 

[Raider_69]

Broncos with K.Hunt as the money man was the starter, its easy to defend if you know how but under pressure it forces you to make decisions and rely on them making a bad one, which happens often

but there is no doubt, the 2nd man play to hunt for the broncos is where it took off. perhaps someone predated it but they perfected it

 

[1 Eyed TEZZA]

Spoke to an assistant coach of the Eels a few years ago. Not there anymore, but he said "nothing you think of is new. It has all been thought of and done before." He was speaking specifically of philosophies and game plans.

The only time you see something new is when the rules allow for it.

 

[Big Pete]

Bellamy added the short, flat ball to the front man variation.

Not sure about that, Lockyer would often go to TC/Stagg/Thorn/Eastwood around that same time period too with the same sort of set up.

Storm were far more succesful with it though with Hoffy absolutely carving in 2006.