Good to see a good batch of 6'3" - 6'4" back rows coming through
the two 10s - quite a contrast, Lowry 5'7" (
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I know these stats are often as flaky as the day is long...
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I get the feeling that Campbell and Anderson are the best coaching partnership we have and still will be even though McFarland and Peel are coaching the senior side.Fortyniner wrote:Excellent stuff and the Campbell/Anderson duo sound like a coaching match made in heaven.
More power to their elbow.
We (UR) shall return!
For what reason/reasons? Merely curioustherealspratt wrote:Remain to be convinced as to the suitability of Campbell to be running the academy and deciding who gets in.
why , where you or your son turned downtherealspratt wrote:Remain to be convinced as to the suitability of Campbell to be running the academy and deciding who gets in.
well you and I will never know that, as i said results and caps are showing me, the fan that its working so I am happy with that. I would expect to see more of the kids getting Senior games this year and i reckon that will happen . you have harped on some time about O'Donnell , maybe he lacks something else to be a pro player, IIRCC I believe he played last year in a game against a select team , I watched that and thought he was pretty average, but then people see different things. maybe you should get him to Jersey or London Scottishtherealspratt wrote:I've heard some rather negative things about the mental box that Campbell wants potential players to fit into, meaning we've missed out on some really very talented players, with them plumping for lads more likely to toe their line. The much more pedestrian Stewart over O'Donnell for example.
For the longest time our academy was run by incompetents, some small degree of professionalism was always going to pay dividends, it still doesn't necessarily mean that Campbell is the right man for it.
I've nothing to do with the lad! I just know him to be a better prospect than Stewart.Gerald the Mole wrote:well you and I will never know that, as i said results and caps are showing me, the fan that its working so I am happy with that. I would expect to see more of the kids getting Senior games this year and i reckon that will happen . you have harped on some time about O'Donnell , maybe he lacks something else to be a pro player, IIRCC I believe he played last year in a game against a select team , I watched that and thought he was pretty average, but then people see different things. maybe you should get him to Jersey or London Scottishtherealspratt wrote:I've heard some rather negative things about the mental box that Campbell wants potential players to fit into, meaning we've missed out on some really very talented players, with them plumping for lads more likely to toe their line. The much more pedestrian Stewart over O'Donnell for example.
For the longest time our academy was run by incompetents, some small degree of professionalism was always going to pay dividends, it still doesn't necessarily mean that Campbell is the right man for it.