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<blockquote data-quote="BPM" data-source="post: 1214992" data-attributes="member: 59968">The &#039;support&#039; might, but the RFU definitely won&#039;t.I stand by what I&#039;ve said many times before. I think Borthwick could become a very good head coach. However, 1) he really shouldn&#039;t be learning on the job and 2) his learning curve seems to be pretty glacial.He needs to do a better job of understanding his own strengths and weaknesses and get the back room staff that offer the expertise to add to the areas he&#039;s not good at: most pertinently attack and selection.Selection is a funny one. I think he picks sides that look good on paper but then seems to give them a game plan that actively negates their strengths. Saturday was a case in point - a second playmaker and a smaller elusive winger makes 0 sense when kick, kick and kick is the only tactic. If that&#039;s what the plan was, why not pick Spencer, Roebuck and Steward?Until there is an obviously better option, I think we have to back him and hope we start seeing tangible improvement. Yes, the results have got better but the performances are still patchy at best and that is being exceptionally kind.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BPM, post: 1214992, member: 59968"] The ‘support’ might, but the RFU definitely won’t. I stand by what I’ve said many times before. I think Borthwick [I]could[/I] become a very good head coach. However, 1) he really shouldn’t be learning on the job and 2) his learning curve seems to be pretty glacial. He needs to do a better job of understanding his own strengths and weaknesses and get the back room staff that offer the expertise to add to the areas he’s not good at: most pertinently attack and selection. Selection is a funny one. I think he picks sides that look good on paper but then seems to give them a game plan that actively negates their strengths. Saturday was a case in point - a second playmaker and a smaller elusive winger makes 0 sense when kick, kick and kick is the only tactic. If that’s what the plan was, why not pick Spencer, Roebuck and Steward? Until there is an obviously better option, I think we have to back him and hope we start seeing tangible improvement. Yes, the results have got better but the performances are still patchy at best and that is being exceptionally kind. [/QUOTE]

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