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Oldsalt wrote:FKL just how often has Rasolea or any of the other invisible backs "played" a lot of rugby this season. Conceding 50+ try's is not indicative of a good defence.
Oldsalt wrote:FKL just how often has Rasolea or any of the other invisible backs "played" a lot of rugby this season. Conceding 50+ try's is not indicative of a good defence.
Friday Knight Lights wrote:The official website says he's played 8 games which is significant game time.
dolf_lundgren wrote:One thing Hodge has done is settle on a first choice backline. I dont think Solly really managed that. He had a few injuries to contend with but particularly in the centre he chopped around with Allan, Helu, Dean, Burleigh an Tofilau. Similarly at 9 I couldn't tell you who Solly favoured, it was any one of three.
germain wrote:SRU have to learn their lessons: Assistant coaches must go well with the head coach, or it's just a waste of money.
bignose wrote:germain wrote:SRU have to learn their lessons: Assistant coaches must go well with the head coach, or it's just a waste of money.
Cockerill has recent experience of incompatibilities with assistant coaches
Friday Knight Lights wrote:If coaches change I'd want the young Scottish coaches like Grant, McRae, Dalziel, Lawrie, Blair etc who show promise to sit down with Cockers and talk vision for Edinburgh so he can pick from an SRU approved pool so it's the best of both worlds.
dolf_lundgren wrote:With all the change arounds, O'Halloran coming to Edinburgh makes far more sense than Glasgow.
Friday Knight Lights wrote:If coaches change I'd want the young Scottish coaches like Grant, McRae, Dalziel, Lawrie, Blair etc who show promise to sit down with Cockers and talk vision for Edinburgh so he can pick from an SRU approved pool so it's the best of both worlds.
germain wrote:dolf_lundgren wrote:With all the change arounds, O'Halloran coming to Edinburgh makes far more sense than Glasgow.
Clearly.
I think with O'Halloran and Rennie, Glasgow have two great coaches. Maybe one in each scottish club would have been wiser.
You wonder why Johnson has always chosen coaches with forward orientated game plan for Edinburgh (Solomons then Cockerill). Does he want to build two different identities on this? If that is the case, I think it's a mistake. Everything is not Solomons' fault, but his tenure should have demonstrated that a very limited game plan is not our natural game. We must have strong forwards, but we're not like Munster. I bet Solomons would have flourished there...Friday Knight Lights wrote:If coaches change I'd want the young Scottish coaches like Grant, McRae, Dalziel, Lawrie, Blair etc who show promise to sit down with Cockers and talk vision for Edinburgh so he can pick from an SRU approved pool so it's the best of both worlds.
Yeah, hopefully, Cockerill can start a new era, without Hodge, Wilkins and Scott who have been there for too long without doing much good. Chrystie is doing well with Melrose too.
Friday Knight Lights wrote:
Or because you build an expansive game plan from solid foundations? Lineen played very basic rugby before Toonie rocked up at Glasgow and left the team solid and in the right place to go forward. We didn't do well under Solomons because he is not a good coach and signed bad players. We won't build a castle on quicksand, you need solid foundations before you build the house.
I worry about Melrose and Ayr coaches as they are both the best teams in the Prem and always have been, is that not massively helped by their superior resources?
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