Intercept Tries

[OriginalMrC]

Pretty much every week the OurLeague app has got intercept tries included in the Try of the Week. Invariably they involve someone catching a loose pass and running fast in a straight line. I'd much rather see a really great passing move or a spectacular dive in the corner. Anyone else think intercept tries get more credit then they deserve?

 

[Jughead]

Depends. If they’ve still got players to beat, yeah, they’re impressive. If it’s open space and they’re just running with no one anywhere near them, they’re not as good but still reasonably impressive to see someone hit full speed. 

[ELBOWSEYE]

Still worth 4 points and usually change momentum of the game 

 

[DI Keith Fowler]

I think there's an assumption that a try from distance is always spectacular when they can often be fairly boring. Dropped ball then a speedster goes 80 metres uncontested isn't any better than a well constructed crash ball try from two yards out.

[OriginalMrC]

13 minutes ago, DI Keith Fowler said:

I think there's an assumption that a try from distance is always spectacular when they can often be fairly boring. Dropped ball then a speedster goes 80 metres uncontested isn't any better than a well constructed crash ball try from two yards out.

Agreed

[The Blues Ox]

Depends like someone said above. Tipping the ball up in the air off a pass and been able to catch it can be a very hard skill like a change of direction at the right point when someone is chasing you but just catching and running really isn't worthy of try of the week mentions.

[bobbruce]

Sometimes with an intercept it’s a great read by the defender. I’m thinking the sort Lee Briers used to be brilliant at. 

[ELBOWSEYE]

42 minutes ago, DI Keith Fowler said:

I think there's an assumption that a try from distance is always spectacular when they can often be fairly boring. Dropped ball then a speedster goes 80 metres uncontested isn't any better than a well constructed crash ball try from two yards out.

Your making the mistake of rating a try when an intercept will if from distance have the teams fans cheering the full sprint. So generally they have a bigger impact and in a lot of cases are against the run of play 

[Bedfordshire Bronco]

2 hours ago, OriginalMrC said:

Pretty much every week the OurLeague app has got intercept tries included in the Try of the Week. Invariably they involve someone catching a loose pass and running fast in a straight line. I'd much rather see a really great passing move or a spectacular dive in the corner. Anyone else think intercept tries get more credit then they deserve?

 

I really like them if I'm honest 

I think they are the ones when you are in the crowd they mean more.

A team is plodding through a set and your team is defending then BOOM!!!....your outside back is off to the other end for an unexpected try 

Then you hear yourself screaming and you start ripping your shirt off and swinging it around your head.......or.is that just me?

[Bedfordshire Bronco]

1 hour ago, DI Keith Fowler said:

I think there's an assumption that a try from distance is always spectacular when they can often be fairly boring. Dropped ball then a speedster goes 80 metres uncontested isn't any better than a well constructed crash ball try from two yards out.

Not sure I've ever seen my team do it and found it boring!

[Dunbar]

44 minutes ago, bobbruce said:

Sometimes with an intercept it’s a great read by the defender. I’m thinking the sort Lee Briers used to be brilliant at. 

This is the key for me.  If it is a loose pass by an attacker then perhaps not as good but if it is a quality read by the defender to take the intercept then that is a skill in the game in its own right. 

[DavidM]

Has anyone ever seen someone try and pass it in their own ingoal and it gets intercepted and the player just plonks it down for a try 

[Anita Bath]

8 minutes ago, DavidM said:

Has anyone ever seen someone try and pass it in their own ingoal and it gets intercepted and the player just plonks it down for a try 

Not in his own ingoal but the great Billy Slater in the World Cup Final wasnt far from his own ingoal. He has never had to buy his own drink in NZ since.

[doc]

I wasn't a fan of the one Widnes gave away against London. Liam Finn to Keiran Dixon. Watching the fastest man on the pitch scoring, to rubber stamp our relegation wasn't enthralling.

I've forgiven Dixon..

[graveyard johnny]

the look on the face of the player who throws the  pass that gets intercepted is always interesting - it as if you can read their mind saying something like "oh boll erks"

[The Blues Ox]

58 minutes ago, DavidM said:

Has anyone ever seen someone try and pass it in their own ingoal and it gets intercepted and the player just plonks it down for a try 

Am I imagining things or did this not happen in a challenge cup final involving Hull?

[Just Browny]

55 minutes ago, DavidM said:

Has anyone ever seen someone try and pass it in their own ingoal and it gets intercepted and the player just plonks it down for a try 

Marcus Bai, 2005 Cup Final. Intercepted by Richard Whiting.

 

[Bedfordshire Bronco]

18 minutes ago, graveyard johnny said:

the look on the face of the player who throws the  pass that gets intercepted is always interesting - it as if you can read their mind saying something like "oh boll erks"

Yes that is always a funny part too

[Mumby Magic]

I hate it when we Intercept and go full length of the field.

 

 

[north yorks trinity]

3 hours ago, Bedfordshire Bronco said:

I really like them if I'm honest 

A team is plodding through a set and your team is defending then BOOM!!!....your outside back is off to the other end for an unexpected try 

Depends which team scores.

My team is plodding through a set and the other team defending then BOOM!!!...their outside back is off to the other end for an unexpected try with their fans cheering the whole run.

Not so good then!!

[Bedfordshire Bronco]

16 minutes ago, north yorks trinity said:

Depends which team scores.

My team is plodding through a set and the other team defending then BOOM!!!...their outside back is off to the other end for an unexpected try with their fans cheering the whole run.

Not so good then!!

Yep.....still gets the emotions up though !

[Bedfordshire Bronco]

3 hours ago, doc said:

I wasn't a fan of the one Widnes gave away against London. Liam Finn to Keiran Dixon. Watching the fastest man on the pitch scoring, to rubber stamp our relegation wasn't enthralling.

I've forgiven Dixon..

[Old Frightful]

4 hours ago, The Blues Ox said:

Am I imagining things or did this not happen in a challenge cup final involving Hull?

1 hour 24 minutes and 30 seconds of this video :

 

 

[DACS]

They're overrated in terms of skill for the most part, but they are exciting, and with the fitness and speed of forwards in cover defence now we see far fewer long range tries scored by other means.

[JohnM]

On 23/03/2023 at 15:28, OriginalMrC said:

Pretty much every week the OurLeague app has got intercept tries included in the Try of the Week. Invariably they involve someone catching a loose pass and running fast in a straight line. I'd much rather see a really great passing move or a spectacular dive in the corner. Anyone else think intercept tries get more credit then they deserve?

 

No.