It’s becoming glaringly obvious to anyone with eyes that Rohan Smiths “Vibes Rugby” is smoke and mirrors. Sounds great, you do get some highlight reel tries but overall it’s just the same crap every week.
First 10 mins we were up in Catalans faces with some swarming and tough defence then, like a light switch we went back to the powderpuff lackadaisical “passive” model and the writing was on the wall from then on in.
Catalan were there for the taking, they were just a nervous as ourselves but they played simple, basic rugby that played to their strengths, god knows what we were trying. Far too many players waiting around for someone else to do the work, too many players falling into the trap of believing their own online fanclubs and no one in that team who is prepared to read the riot act and take the game by the scruff of the neck.
All in all, we are in a spiral of our own making and we won’t break out of it until the “coach” is removed, he sets the team and the tactics but although he can talk a good game he certainly can’t coach one consistently.