Development Team?
It says here that the Ospreys will play somewhere around 10 development games next year. I think this is a great idea. Maybe the first string team should do that too! Perhaps they should play 14 or 15 development games. Maybe this would enable them to develop the ability to hold onto the ball.
Now everyone knows that I’m one of the biggest Osprey supporters known to man and, the 450 times I’ve watched my Wales Grand Slam 2008 DVD, of course, makes me an expert on brilliant Welsh rygbi play. :O)
So I have to wonder how the lads could give us such an incredible effort in Six Nations and then spend the rest of the season fumbling the ball around and missing crucial kicks. It’s kind of as if everybody ran out of enthusiasm for playing the calliper of rygbi demonstrated in Six Nations.
That’s not to say they’ve done badly in terms of results. But upon occasion those results have been by the skin of their teeth. Clearly they can do better.
May 17th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
How can they give such different performances? To ask that you have to ask what is different… as far as I can see that pretty much means the coaches.
With Lyn now gone we should see just how much his influence held us back. Hopefully we can go with a coach with a different focus. Too often we have seen us try play a forward orientated game, shifting talents such as Hook, Henson and ickle shane into the background. What a waste.
Telling Marshall to stop looking for runners and try passing it out quickly would be helpful as well. Lets move decision making to 10, where it should be