I wish we cared the same and still won it!
Tigers v Exeter (A) - Premiership - Saturday 23rd December 2023 - KO 3-00pm
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Re: Tigers v Exeter (A) - Premiership - Saturday 23rd December 2023 - KO 3-00pm
Agree on the wishing we'd win it, not so much on the wishing we didn't care about it until late into the run.
No, not that one!
Remember, whatever you do to the smallest of the backs you do to his prop, and you can't avoid the rucks and mauls forever...
I know you don't like it when I boo him but how else will he know he's wrong?
non possumus capere
Remember, whatever you do to the smallest of the backs you do to his prop, and you can't avoid the rucks and mauls forever...
I know you don't like it when I boo him but how else will he know he's wrong?
non possumus capere
Re: Tigers v Exeter (A) - Premiership - Saturday 23rd December 2023 - KO 3-00pm
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Re: Tigers v Exeter (A) - Premiership - Saturday 23rd December 2023 - KO 3-00pm
They cannot do worse than that circus act we put out today.
No, not that one!
Remember, whatever you do to the smallest of the backs you do to his prop, and you can't avoid the rucks and mauls forever...
I know you don't like it when I boo him but how else will he know he's wrong?
non possumus capere
Remember, whatever you do to the smallest of the backs you do to his prop, and you can't avoid the rucks and mauls forever...
I know you don't like it when I boo him but how else will he know he's wrong?
non possumus capere
Re: Tigers v Exeter (A) - Premiership - Saturday 23rd December 2023 - KO 3-00pm
Re: Tigers v Exeter (A) - Premiership - Saturday 23rd December 2023 - KO 3-00pm
Too many key players still missing: Clare, Dolly, Vanes, the very underrated Scott, Hassel Collins, JVP, Cronin, Hanro( thought we’d miss him as I don’t think he’s ever had a big game!)
No one does well at Sandy Park.
The next two games will really tell us more. If we want to get any chance of top 4 we need two wins, ugly will do.
Lastly, the coaches need patience to get the continuously changing team to settle.
Look at Bath and Exeter last season and now this!
I do however believe we need a top class backs coach: Mike Catt is leaving Ireland.
No one does well at Sandy Park.
The next two games will really tell us more. If we want to get any chance of top 4 we need two wins, ugly will do.
Lastly, the coaches need patience to get the continuously changing team to settle.
Look at Bath and Exeter last season and now this!
I do however believe we need a top class backs coach: Mike Catt is leaving Ireland.
Re: Tigers v Exeter (A) - Premiership - Saturday 23rd December 2023 - KO 3-00pm
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Re: Tigers v Exeter (A) - Premiership - Saturday 23rd December 2023 - KO 3-00pm
High quality clowns or low quality jugglers, you decide...
No, not that one!
Remember, whatever you do to the smallest of the backs you do to his prop, and you can't avoid the rucks and mauls forever...
I know you don't like it when I boo him but how else will he know he's wrong?
non possumus capere
Remember, whatever you do to the smallest of the backs you do to his prop, and you can't avoid the rucks and mauls forever...
I know you don't like it when I boo him but how else will he know he's wrong?
non possumus capere
Re: Tigers v Exeter (A) - Premiership - Saturday 23rd December 2023 - KO 3-00pm
I think we need an attack rather than a backs coach. Modern attack moves involve everyone with the possible exception of the 2 props. If we think we can run move A from the play book and get a score from a defence like Exeter played today I think we will be disappointed.
Re: Tigers v Exeter (A) - Premiership - Saturday 23rd December 2023 - KO 3-00pm
Catching drill need to be done under some greater defensive pressure. Trotting around catching it in practice is not the same as under pressure and we were pitiful at that today.
Re: Tigers v Exeter (A) - Premiership - Saturday 23rd December 2023 - KO 3-00pm
Only JVP, Scott, and Hanro would have been included today though. When your 10 is not on form, and you don’t get the bounce, then today happens....Ian Cant wrote: ↑Sat Dec 23, 2023 5:27 pm Too many key players still missing: Clare, Dolly, Vanes, the very underrated Scott, Hassel Collins, JVP, Cronin, Hanro( thought we’d miss him as I don’t think he’s ever had a big game!)
No one does well at Sandy Park.
The next two games will really tell us more. If we want to get any chance of top 4 we need two wins, ugly will do.
Lastly, the coaches need patience to get the continuously changing team to settle.
Look at Bath and Exeter last season and now this!
I do however believe we need a top class backs coach: Mike Catt is leaving Ireland.
Re: Tigers v Exeter (A) - Premiership - Saturday 23rd December 2023 - KO 3-00pm
Please not Mike Catt, he kicked ball away more than Rob Andrew.Offside wrote: ↑Sat Dec 23, 2023 5:32 pm I think we need an attack rather than a backs coach. Modern attack moves involve everyone with the possible exception of the 2 props. If we think we can run move A from the play book and get a score from a defence like Exeter played today I think we will be disappointed.
Re: Tigers v Exeter (A) - Premiership - Saturday 23rd December 2023 - KO 3-00pm
TBH, I think we might be missing somebody like sir Kev who motivates people. This is where we are 2nd best at the moment. We are not going out on the pitch wanting blood. Maybe this is a job for the head coach, but this needs to change. It feels like we are a pack of show Golden Retrievers rather than Tibetan Mastiffs or Dobermanns.
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Re: Tigers v Exeter (A) - Premiership - Saturday 23rd December 2023 - KO 3-00pm
Will be interesting to see if Catt can repeat the tricks he showed with Ireland elsewhere or whether he was just handy at getting a few players to integrate into what was largely the Leinster side.LE18 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 23, 2023 5:37 pmPlease not Mike Catt, he kicked ball away more than Rob Andrew.Offside wrote: ↑Sat Dec 23, 2023 5:32 pm I think we need an attack rather than a backs coach. Modern attack moves involve everyone with the possible exception of the 2 props. If we think we can run move A from the play book and get a score from a defence like Exeter played today I think we will be disappointed.
We definitely need someone to come in and bring something different. Ideally over the 6N period so we can build over the international break.