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<blockquote data-quote="Welsh Exile" data-source="post: 1218966" data-attributes="member: 82670">I would go further:&quot;Players playing better under new coach after previous coach had lost the dressing room&quot; shocker. Gatland isn&#039;t the root cause of Welsh rugby woes, no one in the Milky Way was saying that. But he, and his coaches, were the root cause for how badly coached we look. They&#039;re also solely responsible for instilling belief, changing mindsets and creating an positive culture that produces results. And that&#039;s before the tactics, how we set up etc etc. Sherratt had been very clear on his first day, there is sweet F all he can do really wrt to changing much but he can focus on mindset and instilling belief and getting the players playing with intent. Even at our worst under Gatland I always said the reason why we&#039;re not close to top 4 is because of players but the reasons we can&#039;t compete with Italy and are worse than Georgia are largely psychological and tactical. We were outplayed across the park against Scotland for most of that game but even when we were, due to how we approach the game, I always felt like we could score tries, something that was lacking under Gatland and Howley. I don&#039;t expect to beat England but I honestly would be surprised if you won comfortably just because I fancy us to score 2 or 3 tries. Just hope you don&#039;t score 10. Ha.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Welsh Exile, post: 1218966, member: 82670"] I would go further: “Players playing better under new coach after previous coach had lost the dressing room” shocker. Gatland isn’t the root cause of Welsh rugby woes, no one in the Milky Way was saying that. But he, and his coaches, were the root cause for how badly coached we look. They’re also solely responsible for instilling belief, changing mindsets and creating an positive culture that produces results. And that’s before the tactics, how we set up etc etc. Sherratt had been very clear on his first day, there is sweet F all he can do really wrt to changing much but he can focus on mindset and instilling belief and getting the players playing with intent. Even at our worst under Gatland I always said the reason why we’re not close to top 4 is because of players but the reasons we can’t compete with Italy and are worse than Georgia are largely psychological and tactical. We were outplayed across the park against Scotland for most of that game but even when we were, due to how we approach the game, I always felt like we could score tries, something that was lacking under Gatland and Howley. I don’t expect to beat England but I honestly would be surprised if you won comfortably just because I fancy us to score 2 or 3 tries. Just hope you don’t score 10. Ha. [/QUOTE]

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