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Jacek’s stats don’t lie, drop the box kicks!

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BRENDAN GALLAGHER

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Tedium: Ben Youngs puts up a box kick against South Africa in the World Cup final
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MANY of you have grown to detest the ubiquitous box kick with a vengeance recently and I share your pain.
Nothing is a bigger cop out and detracts more from rugby as a spectacle, so my attention was naturally drawn this week by a set of statistics which seem to underline their sheer futility. As Eddie Jones himself tells us, we must pay more attention to sports data and the messages they impart.
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