BackSeatCoach wrote:
No surprise we are where we are...
JK used to say you can never have too many pivot players and I've always believed that. You need grafters, speed, size utility but none are any good without brains.
All the above can in an injury situation be replaced in the short term by youngsters or loan players, all except the pivots.
Youngsters can't replace an experienced playmaker whilst other teams rarely have pivots of any quality to loan out.
It is our pivots who have copped more injuries than you'd expect over the last two years, most notably in the hooking role. So maybe instead of signing more back rowers, we should perhaps have signed another hooker, maybe though I'm not convinced if I'm honest it would have saved us this poor start.
So let's be honest instead of looking for scapegoats we have really been crippled by injuries, any fair-minded person can see that. Could CC have handled it better? Maybe but nobody on here knows the true story and frankly I wish the touchline coached would just shut up for a while. Be disappointed, want CC sacked if you must but don't make out you know better because you don't. Some of you sound like those prats who read the papers and claim how to win a war without ever having worn a uniform let alone fought a war.
So for the record
K Wood, just finding form after injury
J Wood injured after 2 games
Miller out after game 4
Hampshire out after game 4
Mason fit for now
That's three of your five main pivots out and some of you don't think that affects a small club like ours? Get a grip.
So would sacking CC turn it around, might, might not. Is CC a great coach, not looking good at present I'll accept? Has he suffered some grievous blows, definitely and ones that would stuff most coaches?
Stop moaning and start supporting, who knows it might actually help. Obviously, that won't apply to a few on here who purely wish to moan so I wouldn't want to stop them enjoying the thing in life that brings them the most joy.