malkster1 wrote:A lot of end of season gripes going on but tbt we simply ran out of steam. This was caused in no little part by lack of rotation and the sheer workload imposed on the pack by the tactics. They worked to a certain extent but eventually we were found wanting. We were also capable of occasionally reverting back to being as bad as we were under Alan Solomon's and those moments causing us to lose against weaker teams often from strong positions is what cost us our play off place not just winning 2 from 4 Vs Scarlets, Leinster, Glasgow and Ulster.
People are correct we need to improve next season and become less one dimensional. We have suffered some bad luck with injuries and signing players like Hickey and Socino who have been inexplicably poor but if we do not modify how we play then questions deserve to be answered.
However we have to be a little realistic that if we were to get rid of someone like Cockerill who is building a club and told us fixing the team would be a long term project after 3 years then who would you get. Not many top coaches would be interested and we would effectively have to start again.
Finally if the while point of your rant is Glasgow got Cockerill sacked and he had left a month before you look kind of silly
Your first 2 sentences are spot on. And issues of Cockerill's making.
The rest is an alternative narrative to usual. And given Focus will had a decade at Leicester, equally viable. Good coach once, probably?. Good coach now - results not reputation will decide.
I got the date or his sacking wrong. Big deal, it was his team that got humped, as they were in the first leg in Glasgow. And his legacy is still to work it's way out.
Definitely last post on this for now. The happy clappy tendency can keep the excuses coming