Heyneke Meyer

[strawclearer]

Rumours starting to circulate that Heyneke Meyer has been sacked by Stade Francais, according to reports in France.

According to Midi Olympique, the general manager, Thomas Lombard announced to the players this afternoon that
Meyer and his deputies would be leaving immediately.

No doubt there will be speculation of a Meyer/Borthwick 'dream team' at Tigers.....

[Mark62]

Report on twitter saying Stade have scored fewer points and conceded more than any other side

[kpj tiger]

Meyer is a limited coach in my opinion, his teams remind me a lot of our current team where its very stale territory based play that sends you to sleep and relies on top draw kickers to even be remotely successful

[DingDong]

We need a coach whose been consistently successful (not necessarily winning trophies!) over the past 5 years, any longer and it bears little relevance to the current style of play. No more risk taking. So that's a no from me to Heyneke!

[JP14]

No.

[TTRITH]

Rumours starting to circulate that Heyneke Meyer has been sacked by Stade Francais, according to reports in France.

No doubt there will be speculation of a Meyer/Borthwick 'dream team' at Tigers.....

Strawclearer can I politely ask you to stop sprouting stuff like this. You never know, someone at the club could be watching and come up with rediculous notion such as this. As fans we should be giving them ideas.

[Tiglon]

Meyer is a limited coach in my opinion, his teams remind me a lot of our current team where its very stale territory based play that sends you to sleep and relies on top draw kickers to even be remotely successful

The style of play you describe would be a wonderful upgrade for Tigers at the moment! Pragmatism is what is needed when you're struggling. Cut out the risks and play the percentages.

Disclaimer: I am not in any way promoting the idea of Meyer returning.

[kpj tiger]

Meyer is a limited coach in my opinion, his teams remind me a lot of our current team where its very stale territory based play that sends you to sleep and relies on top draw kickers to even be remotely successful

The style of play you describe would be a wonderful upgrade for Tigers at the moment! Pragmatism is what is needed when you're struggling. Cut out the risks and play the percentages.

Disclaimer: I am not in any way promoting the idea of Meyer returning.

I think that's what we are trying to do but without Ford we don't have the halfbacks for it

[jgriffin]

I have nightmares about the Meyer era still. Not as bad as the reappearance of the rotund MOC, but close.

[voice of the crumbie]

Report on twitter saying Stade have scored fewer points and conceded more than any other side

Remind you of anybody else?

[sam16111986]

I have nightmares about the Meyer era still. Not as bad as the reappearance of the rotund MOC, but close.

I don't think Meyer was really here long enough to see what he was trying to achieve. Certainly the early part of his tenure was a bit more pragmatic then we were used to. He developed the lads coming through well, turning Tom Youngs into a hooker and Ben Youngs thinks highly of him and has previously met up with him on international duty.

Not the type of appointment we need currently. He's a DOR style appointment. We need a head coach who's going to come in and bring a well defined style of play and a greater intensity. The appointment of Borthwick should deliver that.

[voice of the crumbie]

I have nightmares about the Meyer era still. Not as bad as the reappearance of the rotund MOC, but close.

The Loffreda era was similarly nightmarish.

[Wayne Richardson Fan Club]

I have nightmares about the Meyer era still. Not as bad as the reappearance of the rotund MOC, but close.

The Loffreda era was similarly nightmarish.

Meyer served up some of the worst rugby I have ever seen from Tigers, Loffreda could of worked but that was the start of player power that has sown the seeds of a lot of the present mess.

Tigers v Ospreys at the Liberty under Meyer still makes me shudder.

[mol2]

Come on, the Meyer era was not good but compared to the current garbage it was positively amazing.

[fortysix]

Certainly our esteemed Board has appointed some pretty amazing Coaches, eh !!!????