bishops finger wrote:I won't deny that TS did lay foundations that were now seemingly benefitting from, but I'm not sure how much further he would have took us though, and I'm not just saying that because he's gone or because he's now coaching you either. Under TS we could always pull of a shock win against a top team, or push them close, but we couldn't do it consistently though, we had no structure and our defence was terrible too, poor fitness and line speed, Sky commentators loved us because we'd throw the ball around and score some great tries, he loves that 'heads up'style of play but that's no good when your still losing games.
Time will tell whether he can change your fortunes, he's obviously got a track record of doing it so maybe he will, but I just feel his methods are out dated now, his softly softly approach to fitness training in pre season looks like it's a terrible idea now.
His 'soft' approach to pre season training could be to try and tackle or recurring problem of flopping from July onwards which the team have done for about 6 years now. Whatever approach we did under Radford/Last/Hodgson it wasn't working. Time will tell if intensity increases during the season and let's see how we perform over the summer/autumn.
