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The Nudger wrote:Friday Knight Lights wrote:The Nudger wrote:Really? When Hodge left the Scotland role they immediately started scoring more tries and Edinburgh started scoring fewer. No change in Head Coach in either case.
Correlation isn't causation. When Hodge left Scotland it coincided with the team improving all across the squad with depth and experience.
If you think a new backs coach will change the gameplan from forward dominated to all signing all dancing prime Glasgow Warriors I refer you to Richard Cockerill's Leicester tenure.
Not saying he should stay. But he's not the biggest current problem. We also don't have good backs - VdW is a poor passer, as are all the centres - quite hard for much width when that is the case.
Same 2 sets of players, same head coaches but in both cases that group of players score fewer tries with Hodge as their attack coach than with another. Surely that is correlation!
Particularly damning when one of those attack coaches is Alan Solomons!
I'm not saying that we need to go full Glasgow Warriors but I am saying that no matter how conservative our game plan when we do attack it should be incisive, well drilled and accurate. Most of the time we look completely clueless and lethargic attack, contrast with the defence which even when it goes wrong still looks energetic and structured.
Rasho wrote:Surely when we see Jaco so deep he's 20 yards back receiving the ball, but for Scotland he played flat in the Autumn, the backs coaching ftom Hodgr is to blame.
The Chiel wrote:Think it's just about all been said, but one of my big gripes is it's very difficult to play any sort of running game when the basic passing down the line is so poor.
Friday Knight Lights wrote:Hastings has done us all a favour and got VdW as Scotland's unused sub for the next few weeks. Let's go Chamberlain and Savala!
Tichtheid wrote:Friday Knight Lights wrote:Hastings has done us all a favour and got VdW as Scotland's unused sub for the next few weeks. Let's go Chamberlain and Savala!
The downside is that no way will Shiel start with either of them.
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