....and grew increasingly angry at how the Tigers pushed the envelope.
Increasingly angry......what a *smile* this bloke is.
It was the Dorks who really introduced this stuff with the man-on-the-mark roaming sideways but especially aiming to make the quick kick into the corridor much harder/riskier. I know this because I remember initially resenting it as my thinking was they should be manning a spot where the kick was won. It was years ago, in the Dorks latter premiership years.
Soon all teams were doing it, of course, and you could see what the reasons were and just came to accept it as part of the modern game. For Shocking to blame this evolution on RFC or Cotchin as a recent innovation is complete nonsense.
When all teams can and were able to do it, there's nothing unfair. So it seems apparent that Shocking is acting very likely for a partisan interest that has not been able to cope with that evolution - unlike nearly all other teams.
After all, who was or would have been, objecting to this when it had become part of the game for maybe the last 7/8 years (can't even remember exactly)?