{"id":139230,"date":"2021-10-05T08:01:35","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T08:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=139230"},"modified":"2021-10-05T11:57:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T11:57:46","slug":"training-tactic-that-led-to-winning-nrl-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=139230","title":{"rendered":"Training tactic that led to winning NRL moment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Penrith's grand final hero Stephen Crichton has revealed the training and planning that resulted in his game-winning intercept try against South Sydney<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The scoreboard was locked at 8-8 when Crichton snatched a Cody Walker pass out of the air and sprinted away to score. The game ended 14-12 when the Bunnies scored a bounce-back try but Adam Reynolds failed to convert it.<\/p>\n

And it turns out Crichton's moment of brilliance was no fluke or act of luck.<\/p>\n

In fact Channel Nine's Danny Weidler learned the Panthers<\/a> had been training for that exact moment – an errant Walker long ball that could be stolen.<\/p>\n

Former Penrith halfback and current assistant coach, Peter Wallace, had taken the place of Walker at training sessions during the week leading up to the premiership decider.<\/p>\n

Wallace was essentially Walker in the opposed sessions where Crichton practiced that exact scenario.<\/p>\n

\"NRL<\/p>\n

"Even when Peter Wallace was playing he was really technical with how he played," Crichton told Weidler.<\/p>\n

"Having him train at Adam Reynolds and Cody Walker's position really helped us train and prepare for the game."<\/p>\n

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It's a common tactic, and one that helped South Sydney<\/a> only a week earlier.<\/p>\n

Suspended fullback Latrell Mitchell had pretended to be Manly superstar Tom Trbojevic during training drills<\/a> leading up to the preliminary final, in which the Bunnies beat the Sea Eagles and Trbojevic was kept quiet.<\/p>\n

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