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I'm spending a lot of time in France Tigs but I'll send one of my assistants to suck his dick. I'd love to offer you Leo Cullen instead too which might just be a happy compromise for all?!
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Don't think it is noted in UK how much of an impact Lancaster has made. In my eyes he's even made huge impact on Cullen as a coach
TBH being Irish you prob think all English coaches are wonderful, you don't have the greatest of standards to compare them with.
Well I'd doubt that. More we arw loyal and back a guy and give chance rather than stab them in back. Guess it more we aren't ruthless.
Dunno about the coaches being wonderful, but we all think your teams are ****.
When was the last time you had the same head coach for 8 years?
It might be ruthless but We where loyal to Cockers IMO how many coaches have lasted as long as he has with one club.
FTFY
Well we've never sacked a coach. Axel god rest him would have been in his 9th season on ticket.
Leinster backed Cheika when it was easy oust him. And got reward.
Just that it's a pity the poir ethos of sackings mid season are creeping in over in England and France.
Guess it more in Ireland money isn't the main driver.
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It's tough but unlike Cheika Cockers went from helping take the team to the Heinken cup final and winning the prem to in the last 3 seasons scrapping the play offs and not troubling top teams in Europe.
Re mid season thing it's tough but I do feel it is better for coach and club IMO.
1) it allows the coach to have 4 months where he can find a new club and have the entire summer to train.
2) it allows the club more time to recruit a new coach and be able to still recruit players in the window between Jan and Summer.
Cockers is a tough old school forwards coach and I do believe he could make a team very very succesfful I mean the Tigers spirit brought back by Cullen and Jennings helped Leinster massively. But sometimes something have to change.
Re mid season thing it's tough but I do feel it is better for coach and club IMO.
1) it allows the coach to have 4 months where he can find a new club and have the entire summer to train.
2) it allows the club more time to recruit a new coach and be able to still recruit players in the window between Jan and Summer.
Cockers is a tough old school forwards coach and I do believe he could make a team very very succesfful I mean the Tigers spirit brought back by Cullen and Jennings helped Leinster massively. But sometimes something have to change.
I think Lancaster did very well and is actually a good coach. He just lost sight a little bit and I think that was probably down to inexperience.
That will have made him stronger and he'll learn from that.
Much of what Eddie Jones is working with is down to Lancaster...and Jones is just putting his experience / tweak on the side...which is a much more physical style...and I like that.
That will have made him stronger and he'll learn from that.
Much of what Eddie Jones is working with is down to Lancaster...and Jones is just putting his experience / tweak on the side...which is a much more physical style...and I like that.
I'm not just on about Tigers.
As for other 2 yes they played part but real fire under Leinster belly was Rocky Elsom. He did stuff that even made Sean O Brien heroics look average. I think his Leinster form was argubally the best vein of form I've ever seen from a club player over the 6 months.
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Not that it could happen but yeah. I think most of our success this year is down to having Graham Henry at the start of the year, Joey Carbery getting gametime is down to him, and Lancaster coming in and adding experience and professionalism. Not much has convinced me Cullen is a head coach just yet, hopefully I'll be proven wrong!
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You can just keep your hands off him thank you very much! You don't need him!
Would feel rather bad if we got him, but he did look good for the short time he was on against us
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DTH van der Merwe is apparently off to Newcastle Falcons. Early replacement for Marcus Watson??
Ben Smuff to Pau. To be fair it's easy to see where they got Munster from as they've a rake of former players and a former coach there. Silly gooses. In more French news Keatley is rumored to be headed to Grenoble or Bayonne.
Bayonne have contract on table for him.
Yes but equally Henry did nothing with the players as such. I think Lancaster does deserve huge credit and Leo was put in at deep end but he's adjusting to it well. And deserves credit for recognising he needed experience and gathering it.
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A completely academic argument here but I'd rather keep the talent than the guy who brought it in. The only problem here being that the talent hasn't the best track record of bringing in useful guys!
Lancaster was seen in Leicester today apprently.
I feel physically sick.
I feel physically sick.
Maybe he's just there for the tourist attractions
