The late Cyril Towers and running rugby go hand in hand with the ethos of the Randwick District Rugby Union Football Club. The philosophy was based on an attacking mindset with the main intention to get the ball to the wings. What this does is create and develop players who have only attack on their minds and are drawcards for spectators.
To have a whole club base their existence on this credo is exciting and presents rugby in its best light, as opposed to ten-man rugby and a kicking philosophy. More Rugby In Cyril Towers’ Day kicking was frowned upon and I believe that unofficially if you did kick the ball, it was a penalty to the other side. According to Randwick Rugby’s website Towers was “the absolute godfather of this club and of the attacking running rugby style and mindset we adopt to this day”.
There is a lesson for today’s players who use a driving maul from a lineout to score tries, when a better, more attractive way of scoring a try would be to shift the ball to the wingers. Towers was known as the “father of running rugby” and influenced noted rugby coach Geoff Mould who coached Mark Ella. #OnThisDay 1906 – Naissance de Cyril Towers Centre des #Wallabies (19 sél.
1926-37) pic.twitter.com/qrsomKItEA When you see the calibre of the Randwick Galloping Greens backline inducted into the Hall of Fame Team named in 2010, you get an idea of the attacking philosophy ingrained into generational players: #9 Ken Catchpole #10 Mark Ella #11 David Campese #12 .
