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<blockquote data-quote="TheSaffycen" data-source="post: 636742" data-attributes="member: 71135"><p>No my point with Lancaster is that he has to work within certain parameters, Cotter can do what he wants and get who he wants. So comparing them is void in my opinion, but if we are comparing them, Lancaster has turned England from a complete laughing stock into a team that could win the world cup. He has also had to blood in youngsters and untried combinations, yet he has managed to come 2nd in every 6 nations and beat every team he's faced apart from South Africa. Cotter plays great rugby and has done okay, but I don't see Connor O'Shea being mentioned and he plays better rugby, has a smaller budget, and has won more ! Cotter is a good coach, possibly great, but he is managing a team that on paper is better than the teams he is losing too. You can say that it's the players fault, and it is to a degree, but watch the Heineken Cup final last year and he was out thought by Laporte, who managed to get his team to play out of their skin and nullify Clermont's game plan, he hasn't had the exactly same players for 5 finals so it is either a MASSIVE COINCEDENCE that he has like a 1-5 finals record or he doesn't know how to set out a team to win a one off game. A 16.6% win percentage in finals kind of says to me he could be the problem.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I can. And I did.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheSaffycen, post: 636742, member: 71135"] No my point with Lancaster is that he has to work within certain parameters, Cotter can do what he wants and get who he wants. So comparing them is void in my opinion, but if we are comparing them, Lancaster has turned England from a complete laughing stock into a team that could win the world cup. He has also had to blood in youngsters and untried combinations, yet he has managed to come 2nd in every 6 nations and beat every team he's faced apart from South Africa. Cotter plays great rugby and has done okay, but I don't see Connor O'Shea being mentioned and he plays better rugby, has a smaller budget, and has won more ! Cotter is a good coach, possibly great, but he is managing a team that on paper is better than the teams he is losing too. You can say that it's the players fault, and it is to a degree, but watch the Heineken Cup final last year and he was out thought by Laporte, who managed to get his team to play out of their skin and nullify Clermont's game plan, he hasn't had the exactly same players for 5 finals so it is either a MASSIVE COINCEDENCE that he has like a 1-5 finals record or he doesn't know how to set out a team to win a one off game. A 16.6% win percentage in finals kind of says to me he could be the problem. I can. And I did. [/QUOTE]
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