Re: Today's 17 : Sun Jul 06, 2014 5:46 pm
Magic Superbeetle wrote:
a) I've not said sack the coach, only sack him if there's someone better available and I'm not sure there is at the moment.
b) if it was week in, week out tackling like u9s then yes, the players aren't good enough. But if we tackled like that last week we'd of been beaten by triple figures. The players can do it, but just don't as regularly as they should (which is every week) - that is attitude, that is the coach. The coach doesn't care - we've all agreed on that on here and the result is results like today - as I said elsewhere 24-10 was a frustrating yet begrudgingly tolerable result - the 3 tries in the last 10 minutes was nothing more than apathy and that comes from the coach.
b) if it was week in, week out tackling like u9s then yes, the players aren't good enough. But if we tackled like that last week we'd of been beaten by triple figures. The players can do it, but just don't as regularly as they should (which is every week) - that is attitude, that is the coach. The coach doesn't care - we've all agreed on that on here and the result is results like today - as I said elsewhere 24-10 was a frustrating yet begrudgingly tolerable result - the 3 tries in the last 10 minutes was nothing more than apathy and that comes from the coach.
So the coach only motivates the players? They don't need to motivate themselves? They are paid professional rugby players, they should be motivated every single week regardless of a coach being there or not. They should be committed also, it's their job.
Players shouldn't need to be motivated or asked to be committed as that should be a given. I can accept poor performance, lack of ability but I can't accept players not being committed as we the paying public pay their wages.
The days of Alex Murphy throwing cups of tea about and insulting players in order to fire them up are well gone.