monkey wrote:Tichtheid wrote:The Nudger wrote:There's something not right with Glasgow. How can a team with that much talent in the backline be getting nilled by the Kings?
They got absolutely battered at the breakdown, made a ton of unforced handling and other errors and looked clueless until Hastings came on and paired up with Price, who had himself made a difference.
Like pretty much every side I've seen coached by humphreys, we seem to expect sides just to let us recycle the ball without competing for it. I'm really fed up with it.
Humphries is a problem, the SRU are too reticent to dismiss ineffective coaches. Solly was kept well past his sell by date, Hodge has shown no improvement in our attacking shape or individual improvements and is still here. Humphries needs to go.
Glasgow's biggest problem is they're all fur coat no knickers. Capable of exhilarating play but a bit of pressure and they're in a lot of trouble.
Their forwards are mostly meh or question marks. I just don't get Ryan Wilson - I figure he's really hard working but he doesn't dominate contact, he's not a big carrier and he's brainless. Glasgow's back row is a hodge podge of similar players. Where's the carriers? Amazing Thomson ended up at Scarlets not Glasgow.
The backs too are a bit hit and miss. Huw Jones was a big investment and for Glasgow a massive flop, a lot of money invested in players getting older and not putting in big performances for Glasgow and little youth coming through bar Horne jnr and Hastings. A real mistake not to play Hastings more last season. Can they afford to keep Hogg when he so rarely plays for Glasgow?
Their recent recruitment hasn't been great, there's not enough players coming up from the academy either. They won't get lucky with Nakarawa's but why haven't they signed another Fijian 7s metronome. Look at how good Mata is for us!
They've been complacent. Where's the blooding youngsters to pick up the slack from an ageing team? What's the gameplan? What's Rennie trying to achieve? Why do they either blow teams apart or collapse?
I'm concerned about them.