breakdown wrote:
Of course it's the players fault, as a coach myself people coming out with that line really doesnt sit well. Tactics can be wrong, motivation may be poor etc etc which is fine but to blame a coach on not "performing consistently" really is a non argument to me
For example it's take the analogy you are a manager in a firm. those under you will fundamentally be told how to carry out their core job, which doesn't change much on a weekly basis. It isn't then up to me, as the manager, to take the brunt of the failings of the staff around me for not carrying out the instructions I have given them when i can't impact how they work 9-5, given I have my own role to do on a daily basis
The same can be applied here. Our tactics don't change week on week much, yes i'm sure the players are given slight, individual tactical changes etc from the waterboys but the fundamentals of the game plan, however poorly executed, haven't changed much. It's not like we've switched from 10 man rugby, to silky back moves, and back again on a weekly basis. It's up to the players to put the plan in place on the pitch, no one else, not Gibbes, Kiss, Dundon, Peel, anyone
That is garbage, I'm sure you'd like me to explain why:
1) Continuous selection of players out of position
2) Chopping and changing consistently does not create partnerships no matter in what part of the side you look.
3) Well-founded stories of bizarre treatment of players, two or three of whom have played 200 plus Ulster games and throwing Cairns of/under the bus.
4) Talk of targetting and not targetting games, what sort of coach does that?
5) Incoherent mumbo-jumbo, it was actually a relief to hear him speak in plain English yesterday & I have to say I actually felt empathy for him for he was emotional, as if he knew the writing was on the wall had they lost.
LOOK, players don't get a free ride but the above are serious signs of, at the kindest, a man flailing around with no real idea of how consistency can be achieved and seemingly unaware that his own inconsistencies contribute to the shambles.
That said if you look at results I think it's pretty clear that the players want to do well and are not simply throwing the DOR under the bus, they have pulled a few games out of the fire, there is no lack of desire.
Anyway, you are entitled to your opinion BD.
Now I detect seriously odd talk abroad, suggestions of a home QF being on the cards. Just to inject a dose of realism, this year we have won away 3 times, Treviso where we almost lost a 21-0 lead, Kings in a shambolic match and in the snow at Hairyquims.
Yes dears it would be great but FFFS does anyone in their right mind think a TBP away is remotely possible ................ albeit Wassups collapse yesterday was legendary?
