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Explain to me why we ditched three 8's and didn't sign one?
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ourla wrote:Explain to me why we ditched three 8's and didn't sign one?
I ask myself this every night before I go to sleep
You will surely get hit with answers of McCafferey or perhaps O'Connor or Hamilton playing 8 before...none of which are good enough answers...
I would love to know..logic tells me we were close to signing someone and it must of fallen through..
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I found the Laurence Pearce departure the hardest to accept. I'd been bigging him up as a future England number 8 early last season. I assumed we'd obviously made a big signing when one by one the Number 8s were signing elsewhere.
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+1Tomvarndell wrote:I found the Laurence Pearce departure the hardest to accept. I'd been bigging him up as a future England number 8 early last season. I assumed we'd obviously made a big signing when one by one the Number 8s were signing elsewhere.
Seemed to me to be pretty good at scoring tries, but didn't seem to get a decent run in the side. Couldn't figure out why and was perplexed when we let him go.
Met some Rotherham supporters, who thought we'd done a cracking bit of business when we signed him and were disappointed to see him go
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No idea - we lack ball carriers, Pearce in particular gave us that.
And don't forget we got rid of another more than decent No. 8 the year before - yes the one that keeps on scoring and making the hard yards for Exeter!
And don't forget we got rid of another more than decent No. 8 the year before - yes the one that keeps on scoring and making the hard yards for Exeter!
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TTTE is notorious with Chiefs fans for NOT making the hard yards, largely finishing off the work of Ewers, Armand and others. He apparently took all his training habits to Chiefs as well. Chiefs are my second team BTW.Soggypitch wrote:No idea - we lack ball carriers, Pearce in particular gave us that.
And don't forget we got rid of another more than decent No. 8 the year before - yes the one that keeps on scoring and making the hard yards for Exeter!
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Perhaps but we don't have a Ewers or Armand to make the hard yards for our non-existent 8 to finish off!
Where's our Itoje, Hughes, Vunipola or Ewers?
Presumably not keen to come here having seen Crane keep TTTE out of the side or even play a second row (Slater) ahead of him and likewise with Pearce who we signed injured and never gave a decent run to in spite of a lack of line breaking.
Our back row doesn't seem to defend around the fringes. Why they all seem to be good players?
Where's our Itoje, Hughes, Vunipola or Ewers?
Presumably not keen to come here having seen Crane keep TTTE out of the side or even play a second row (Slater) ahead of him and likewise with Pearce who we signed injured and never gave a decent run to in spite of a lack of line breaking.
Our back row doesn't seem to defend around the fringes. Why they all seem to be good players?
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Tbf Cockers has done a few good jokes over the years...
Remember that time he picked Ed Slater at number 8?!
Remember that time he picked Ed Slater at number 8?!
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So nobody has the answer.
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Perhaps you could email Cockers or Maurer......they will know the answer.ourla wrote:So nobody has the answer.
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Funny, I was actually wondering that.. if they do know... I'm serious.Tigerbeat wrote:Perhaps you could email Cockers or Maurer......they will know the answer.ourla wrote:So nobody has the answer.
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Ourla, better still, maybe you could go and speak to Cockerill and Mauger in person and ask them. Whilst there you could tell them how to do their job and take a training session as you seem to know best!
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You sound stroppy mate but it's a serious worry surely that we as a group of the most ardent fans don't know the answer. And actually I think there has been a massive journalistic failure here. I've listened to a lot of the Radio Leicester podcasts and you know there is some decent stuff on there. But they don't really ask the meaty questions like this do they. I mean come on it's a pretty serious and glaring issue isn't it?ellis9 wrote:Ourla, better still, maybe you could go and speak to Cockerill and Mauger in person and ask them. Whilst there you could tell them how to do their job and take a training session as you seem to know best!