Bullying Tactics

This is a rugby explanation on the use of the wings by the Springboks by an All Black. "They don't use him the way we would - they kick and then hope their wings run and knock the ball back and then applaud them for doing a good job. This is also exactly true in debating. People think that the debate starts when the speaking starts. Nope. It starts when the website is out. People especially bullies with long arms will start jockeying for positions of power from the selection of DCA’s all the way to the motions and deep into who they will sit next to during the briefings.
We should expect debaters like rugby bullies South Africa, to try to put us under pressure with anything available under the sun. However, if they do not do that well then our counter attack is pretty good and we are looking to punish them but counter, the word ‘counter’ denotes preparatory strategies.
We need to look at the styles of our opponents and not only ours. Like the Boks who like to run hard, try to smash and bully people, they are physical and like having big cleanouts. We need know that it is going to happen and in the old famous words of Sean Connery as Malone in ‘The Untouchables’, “What are ye prepared to dou?”
Every team has their structures and game plan and though we should be sticking to the one we have in place we need to seriously look into what’s on the other side’s plate. There are no limits within the structures, and having prepared for the best horse for the course we should be encouraged to play what is in front of us.
Thus the aims were still to build in major areas and put some polish this week on the set-piece like returning POI’s and rebutting to ensure some ready- made strategies in attack and defense.
"It is a matter of trying to add a bit of sophistication to what we are doing," the famous Omar Sallahuddin said.
"Often you don't know what you need to work on until you have a bit of a trial tourney and we've done that now."
The trick was starting again, in a new tourney building toward Worlds and WUPID taking it all logically as the coaches introduced some of their new concepts to their squad.
Logically, the universal accepted features must be spot on together with some strategies based on possible opponents, some hassle and diplomatic tactics as well as good ol’ lots of trainings.