Teaching kids: after a kick, tackling well is as important as setting the wall

The key coaching point here is that kicking and setting the defensive wall are only half the job — the tackle that follows is equally critical. In the Baku play, there was a good long kick and the wall was set, but the first tackle was missed. The lesson: if you make the tackle right there, the opponent has to play from deep in their own territory. So every time the team kicks, they need to think about two things together — building the wall properly and then tackling better. The phrase 'tackle better' was highlighted as something worth holding onto, because the wall needs to look like a solid barrier, not a soft one. If it doesn't look like a real wall, it loses its defensive value.