To an extent, you're right Mark. But the role of the forwards pretty much is exactly that, but it's actually a tactic in itself. If you hit the wall hard enough, and often enough, a hole will appear that the tacticians in the side -- the lock, the halfback or the five-eighth -- can exploit. RL is as much a game of attrition as it is of tactical skill. Going wide doesn't always work. Look at the game on Saturday night. Penrith scored their first try by going through the middle. Often to the observer it doesn't look like there's much tactics involved, but the whole game is tactics. A bloke bursting onto the ball and running at three other blokes doesn't look like much of a tactic, but after the tackle there's two or three blokes from the other side who are out of position, offside, laying on the ground or whatever. That's a potential opening for the next play. Do that three or even four times in a row and suddenly a hole appears somewhere.
