Sentence examples for breakdown the ball from inspiring English sources

In the midst of a collective nervous breakdown, the ball was quickly worked to Billy Paynter, five yards into his own half.

On 5 March 1983 Michael Jackson's Billie Jean was number one in the charts; a try was worth four points; there was no lifting in line-outs; every forward was expected to get to every breakdown; the ball was leather and brown in colour; the players made no money; and the Scotland jersey was plain blue with a white collar and a white thistle.

They dominated not only the set pieces but the breakdown, getting the ball away quickly for Danny Care to launch his back division.

And for such a short duration of play, Collins added, there is no issue with bounce or any other breakdown in the ball's core.

"As a fly-half you are looking at the breakdown and the ball, and you need an intelligent player outside you who is scanning and looking at the bigger picture, and how the opposition are set up defensively," Jones told BBC 5 live recently.

"Playing up-tempo means we can get to the breakdown quicker, retain the ball quicker, have the ball in hand quicker," says Williams.

They were more disciplined, won the battle at the breakdown and used the ball more effectively than they had in the defeat in Cape Town the previous week.

Jones spent two seasons following the 2003 tournament trying to remedy these alarming and seemingly inexplicable fluctuations in form, but with no success; as George Gregan's form followed that of the team, a national debate that threatened to kill anyone with an IQ over 50 emerged over the number of steps a halfback should take from the breakdown before passing the ball.

There were a few words after the opening rounds and by the time Wales played France, with the grand slam at stake, they felt it was too risky to attack from their own half, for fear of being penalised at the breakdown, and with the ball kicked from hand 88 times in the game, there was a return to the aerial ping-pong of a couple of seasons before.

He does what every good nine should do - get to the breakdown and get the ball away quickly.

But Saints were looking sharper at the breakdown and recycling the ball quicker and they began to force Leicester into conceding penalties.