UlsterNo9 wrote:kingofthehill wrote:Snipe Watson wrote:Do we really know that Peel is crap?
How do we know?
where's the evidence?
He's been a third level coach this season, so how realistic is it to be able to categorically say whether he was a good bad or indifferent coach?
Maybe he is at least in part responsible for Cooney's great season and McPhillips excellent progress.....
Set pieces backline plays are enough to suggest he’s not up to it.
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Is it easier to score of first phase play nowadays? I'd agree it used to be a great opportunity to try a back move with the forwards tied in to scrum or lineout.
Our game plan seemed to revolve around 1st centre crashing it up to allow us to build phases.
And there boys and girls, is what I understand to be Peel's preferred method of attack, a disciple of Warrenball & Howleyshite.
I am also much amused at the "no experience" worry. The STA was a very experienced coach - fu'cking useless.
Lesbian O'Kiss was vastly experienced as a defence coach - Ulster defence came apart season on season.
Mark McCall was an inexperienced coach - won our last trophy. Racist phone was a semi-experienced coach & pro drinker, full of shyte other than the odd time he was sober enough to coach, couldn't pick his nose. Big Jono was a highly experienced coach, couldn't wait to get away & many were unimpressed with the Ulster pack last year.
What good is experience? If it's repeating the same shyte that doesn't work then I call that "bad experience" and not worth the schtame aff yer pish.
I recall with clarity, Doylers first season as Irish coach - the year was 1985, he brought in a host of new young players and shed a load of the 1982/3 successful teams, won a triple crown but with such style. 1986 was a whitewash, the team had gained experience and were never the same again, Ireland won nothing until Comical Eddie's triple-crowns, then up steps kindly Uncle Deccie for a GS.
Experience, like the history of Irish Rugby is a mixed bag, some good, much less than good. It is needed in part, no more than that.