Last season, I'm led to believe that there were significant issues within the coaching setup. Les appears to have ended up doing almost everything. With disjointed coaching the pack, which was very much underpowered in personnel, suffered and it was our major weakness.BR wrote:Players are capable of playing better rugby. They just need to be given the opportunity.jean valjean wrote:How much improvement can a coach make to a players capabilities? Even if Jonno can add 20% to each member of the pack (pushing it), we are still going to have periods of the season when we will have to rely on 3-4 daves. Take Rory, Hendo and marcell out our pack is below average pro14 standard.
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Far too many times we had Roger and Diack at 6/8. Marcell and Deysel, is a heck of an improvement. I don't have much hope in seeing Marcell much mind you. Also the Hond was signed as a ball carrier, but I'll reserve judgement until I see him play.
Anyway, since we hired Jono Gibbes, one of the most highly rated forwards coaches in European club rugby, it isn't unreasonable to think that the pack might improve. It can't get much worse. If we have lots of daves starting even Jono can't make gold from shyte.