It's a more long term and wide ranging issue with his - and please forgive the quotes now - "coaching" and "selection" and "gameplan" strategies than this WC result that has native fans of the side sharpening their knives.
No, not knives. Not axes either. Frikkin greatswords. Maybe Ultima Weapons.
Keeping Lancaster and/or any of the current coaching team is anathema to anyone that has followed the team during his reign. Beyond a freak result against NZ in 2012, little has happened. Young squad, fine. Young squad that could have been addressing the ever present problems from 2-3 years ago but chose not to for whatever ****ing reason, (and even omitted players that may have assisted this in the name of culture) not fine.
Get rid of the coaches. Keep the team but get the players that ought to have been earning caps 2+ years ago into the squad for mentoring ASAP. Rats came up with a disgustingly good team earlier and even had some sort of plan about how to utilise or blood it. Something that Lancaster has lacked throughout his tenure. Every time a problem occurs the side seems to revert to defence at all costs without the pack to back it up. And I, for one, am sick of it. If the plan is defence at all costs then whatever. At least there's a damn plan. But bloody stick to it instead of rearranging the whole backline all the time.
