Gloucester Defence!!
To be fair it is not often that you can say this, but Gloucester's defence was pathetic, spineless, embarrassing. Yes there were a few big boys running at them, but this is rugby, so what a bloody surprise!! I had heard that Lamb was special, well I hope he is finding it hard to look himself in the mirror today. It will be a real test of him. Does he cower away, sulk and blame everyone and everything but himself?? Or does he have a hard summer training and thinking, and finding some steel, some edge, and come back next season and blow us all away!!
I hope the latter.
3 comments:
I think to single out Lamb is a little unfair, I'm not sure any of the Glos backs can honestly say they did their part, it was a collective failure.
The thing I find so noticable about the current Tigers team is the continous physical intensity of their game, they can play an unrelenting physical assault for the whole 80 mins. For this Craig White should be given the plaudits, he has put the team at the next level of physical and mental performance. However to be succesful you need the whole team to be performing at that level. The only other team I've seen capable of doing that is the current All Blacks. If England want to compete on the international stage they need to look at the training Tigers have in place and try to emulate it at every premiership club. It needs to be in place in the day to day training not just at international squad sessions.
Chris,
unfair? harsh possibly, but still true! My frustration, as a sad old has-been, is that we do have a lot of young talented players, but many of them seem almost soft!! There is no edge, no nastiness! i am not advocating mindless violence, but I would like to see some bite, some steel in these guys that shows they are really pissed off that someone just ran through them, that their side is losing, that winning really matters.
I agree absolutely, my point was that the ethic you require needs to be forged into the very heart of the team. Leicester have it in spades, it does not matter if it is the A team or the B team they defend as if their lives depend upon it, and their team-mates expect it.
And you need to have visible in every game, every training session.
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