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GaryIPA wrote:Friday Knight Lights wrote:GaryIPA wrote:
This. He should be a bit part player filling in now and again. Not first choice
No he shouldn't. Kinghorn has shown he deserves to be a starting fullback in the Pro12 the guy is a class act. I'd rather have Kinghorn as my starting 15 than most in the Pro12 - we aren't going to sign a better fullback than him either.
The problem is he has always been a shaky tackler with poor technique and it has not improved in two years - that is on the coaches as their job is to erm coach?
It's acceptance of this kind of mediocrity that gets us in 10th place good enough for the squad. Not as a starter. And the coaches.
Edinburgh made a few too many, but I don't think it was as error-strewn as some are saying.
dolf_lundgren wrote:They also do it by bringing young players into a winning team, which is the one thing Solly got right, you cant throw in a bunch of kids to get beaten up every week and expect them to improve. They also have some very good experienced players around who set the culture. Either our older gys arent doing that or havent been allowed to do that. They dont need to be shouty, just determined, have a work ethic not accept 2nd best. I would almost sign Slamont for a year for that very reason. We need a few of that type of player.
Of course we didn't raise the pace of the game and instead walked very slowly up to every lineout and lost any and all momentum. I nearly burst out laughing when, after their last 3 points, we came running up for the restart and tried a 10m kick instead of the usual kick into the 22m which we do for EVERY other restart.
Maybe it was just me, but I couldn't believe we were slowing the game down so much at the lineouts etc. in the second half. What did we have to lose?
royc wrote: Disappointed with scrum buckling, though we are missing a heap of key players through injury. The lineout is still a weakness, it becomes a bit obvious if you keep throwing to the same catcher, there's others who can catch apart from Gilchrist and McKenzie. The lifters were a tad late getting their man up at least twice, little things, but the lineout is not that well organised, which is primarily a coaching issue.
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