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THE Waratahs hope a combination of muscle and memory will shut down any plans by Melbourne to copy the Brumbies' slowdown tactics at the breakdown.
The Brumbies effectively dampened the attacking momentum of NSW by flooding the ruck at the weekend, and pushed the strategy so far they had two players yellow-carded in the second half.
Halfback Nick Phipps, who struggled to get clean ball with players at his feet, said the Rebels will use similar niggly tactics but hopes the events of Canberra will be fresh in referee Jaco Peyper's memory clamp down quicker.
The South African will referee the Tahs-Rebels game on Friday night at Allianz Stadium as well.
Phipps was given more freedom against the Reds than what the Brumbies allowed. Source: Getty Images
"The Brumbies use those tactics and hold you, but that's rugby. Gone are the days — I wish they were still around — where you could use your feet a bit," Phipps said.
"Hopefully with the same ref he will be a bit aware to it, they do use those tactics to get through and hold players and get around the ball.
"If they have the blueprint to beat the Waratahs, then they will be using those tactics."
Though NSW rallied late and almost won after Peyper's yellow cards, Phipps added it was unwise to rely on refereeing intervention and the main priority was shifting the Rebels' bodies before they became a problem.
"It's mainly down to the big boys upfront to make no opportunity there," Phipps said.
"If they're going to sit there we have to take them out we will be working on that a lot of that this week. Our breakdown got battered a bit in that trial (win over NSW by Melbourne in January)."
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Coach Michael Cheika said he endorsed the latter view of Phipps as the only solution.
"I just feel we should knock blokes out of the way when they're in the way. It has nothing to do with the referee. The referee has a million things to do, and it's not always that obvious," Cheika said.
"In any of the teams I coach I want them to be responsible for their own actions."
Interestingly, Cheika elected to start arguably his most effective cleaner in Wycliff Palu on the bench, with Jacques Potgieter moving to No.6 and Dave Dennis to No.8. Will Skelton will start at lock.
"We have to make sure Cliff is used correctly. We are getting good value out of him and I think that we have the ability to keep the same type of intensity on the ball by changing the shape of the team a bit and letting him come off the bench and finish the game," Cheika said.
Sekope Kepu replaced Benn Robinson at loosehead prop, despite having played mainly tight head in recent years.
Will Skelton has come back into the Waratahs team at lock with Wycliff Palu shuffled to the bench. Source: Getty Images
After admitting to frustrations with Peyper's scrum rulings post-match in Canberra, Cheika said he'd had a constructive meeting with him this week on the set-piece and went on an understandable charm offensive.
"We have come to really good agreement about that (scrum issues)," Cheika said.
"I think he is a top class referee and there's no problems is he does us every week."
Kepu said the Waratahs were looking at the Brumbies defeat as a positive.
"We spoke about it during the week and Daryl's (Gibson) words were "it's a bit of a gift for us". It is how you look at it. You can dwell on it or take the positives and learn from the negatives, as we have done the past couple of days already," Kepu said.
"They had tactics they pulled off and they worked well. It's up to us to keep on top of that and be … a little bit smarter.
"We have a pack that under performed at the weekend and we need to lift that performance."
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