Austin Healey '' Leicester outclassed''

[Tigerbeat]

And I'm fed up with the mods who allows only one way traffic.

Personal name calling .....not allowed ...respect others!

[G.K]

You are inconsistent in your application of them!

[Noggs]

You are inconsistent in your application of them!

Sometimes you just have to agree to disagree.

It was an entertaining game and in the end could have gone either way. We did lack the ability to punch up the middle against what is a very good defensive back line. The forwards edged it in the set piece an in the loose it was fairly even.

We are still a long way short of the best team we could put out and the time to worry is when all the key player are available and we still loose. The Saints have a very good squad and long gone are the day when there were just one or two standout teams and a lot of also rans.

Saints were worthy winner today but it won't always be that way. Our performance wasn't the best but it certainly wasn't embarrassing.

[Spicer]

We have been slowly getting worse for a number of years. When my dad started taking me to the tigers we were one of the best in the Europe. I was at the Millennium stadium when we won the European cup against Munster,12 years ago? We are a top national team. We still are but we have been on a general downward pattern. Currently are have a very good front row, and Salvi, but except from those 4 players that started today I don't think there are any exception players in the squad. Maybe Manu (when fit), Parling and Croft when match fit and on form.

[fortysix]

RC is a good old fashioned club coach. We are now in 2015 and it is now a wholly different ball game. The Board are just as stubborn as our coach and consequently we have digressed-------badly....
In 2015 Leicesters aura has all but disappeared and we are now well back in the pecking order.
Sad---------but true.

[Big Dai]

RC is a good old fashioned club coach. We are now in 2015 and it is now a wholly different ball game. The Board are just as stubborn as our coach and consequently we have digressed-------badly....
In 2015 Leicesters aura has all but disappeared and we are now well back in the pecking order.
Sad---------but true.

RC is a good, old fashioned forwards' (rather than club) coach?

[RagingBull]

Cockerill has said he is a forwards coach.

DOR rugby doesn't mean they coach everything for Christ sake.

Some people need to understand how coaching set-ups works at times.

When Mauger comes he will be
Head Coach/Backs Coach

[Doghashadhisday]

We are now in 2015 and it is now a wholly different ball game.

You are quite right. The salary cap has created a level playing field and there is more money and others have closed the gap whereby at least 9 of the 12 teams in the premiership can beat each other on any given day. I don't see that as Tigers being way behind others, simply that it is not as easy to dominate as before. We have seen false dawns before in Glos, Sale, London Irish, Quins etc doing well for a few seasons. The one constant is that Tigers are always there or thereabouts and IMHO will continue to be there or thereabouts.

[Big Dai]

Cockerill has said he is a forwards coach.

DOR rugby doesn't mean they coach everything for Christ sake.

Some people need to understand how coaching set-ups works at times.

When Mauger comes he will be
Head Coach/Backs Coach

..........Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Don't get your jockstrap in a tangle deary!

I thought DOR means you are responsible for everything? Although you may not always actually do it, you have minions to do that. The clue is in the name DIRECTOR. Implying the verb DIRECT? If I feel we are lacking direction who do I question?

He's a forwards coach trying to be a DOR........The suggestion I would make is he is probably a better forwards coach than he is DOR?

[RagingBull]

Jockstrap, Jockstrap how dare you.

I am a mankini kind of guy and believe me getting that in a tangle causes some serious damage.

[Big Dai]

Jockstrap, Jockstrap how dare you.

I am a mankini kind of guy and believe me getting that in a tangle causes some serious damage.

JEEEESUS! MAKE THAT IMAGE GO AWAY! Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

[DaveRave]

Is Mankini one of our injured southern hemisphere backs?

[Tigerbeat]

Can we get this thread back on topic....thanks

[RagingBull]

Can we get this thread back on topic....thanks

Spoil sport.

[Big Dai]

Can we get this thread back on topic....thanks

I would appreciate that Tigerbeat! I've now got an image of our defensive line stood at Franklins Gardens dressed in nothing but bright orange mankinis!