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Conor O'Shea Performance Director at the RFU
DIR By: Domestos
Date: November 29, 2019, 3:01 am
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Conor O'Shea has been appointed Performance Director at the RFU
HTML https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/2019/11/28/exclusive-rfu-appoints-conor-oshea-performance-director-nigel/
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Re: Conor O'Shea Performance Director at the RFU
DIR By: deadlyfrom5yardsout
Date: November 29, 2019, 4:29 am
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Interview just before the appointment...
HTML https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/sport/rugby/--967254.html
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Re: Conor O'Shea Performance Director at the RFU
DIR By: Quaking Quin
Date: November 29, 2019, 4:21 pm
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A safe stop-gap until something else comes along.
Hope it's not Eddie Jones' job.
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Re: Conor O'Shea Performance Director at the RFU
DIR By: Nigel_B
Date: December 2, 2019, 1:02 pm
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--- Quote from: Quaking Quin link ---
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> A safe stop-gap until something else comes along.
>
> Hope it's not Eddie Jones' job.
>
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QQ I agree. I still think COS was the beneficiary of the set up
left behind by Deano.
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Re: Conor O'Shea Performance Director at the RFU
DIR By: marlowish
Date: December 3, 2019, 4:47 am
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--- Quote from: Nigel_B link ---
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> QQ I agree. I still think COS was the beneficiary of the set
up left behind by Deano.
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same
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Re: Conor O'Shea Performance Director at the RFU
DIR By: marlowish
Date: December 3, 2019, 4:48 am
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--- Quote from: Quaking Quin link ---
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> A safe stop-gap until something else comes along.
>
> Hope it's not Eddie Jones' job.
>
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Now I think of it he did bring in some stars to Quins like
Casson
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Re: Conor O'Shea Performance Director at the RFU
DIR By: JammyGit
Date: December 3, 2019, 5:48 am
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COS completely changed our style of play, leaned heavily on
academy products, and won trophies.
A lot of the good work Richards did for the club was offset by
the huge damage Bloodgate did.
I'll never understand the desire of people to refuse to give COS
the credit due for turning Quins around, and the desire to give
Richards the credit for a team that was produced 3 years after
he got banned.
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Re: Conor O'Shea Performance Director at the RFU
DIR By: You Shall Not Pass
Date: December 3, 2019, 10:11 am
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--- Quote from: JammyGit link ---
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> COS completely changed our style of play, leaned heavily on
academy products, and won trophies.
>
> A lot of the good work Richards did for the club was offset by
the huge damage Bloodgate did.
>
> I'll never understand the desire of people to refuse to give
COS the credit due for turning Quins around, and the desire to
give Richards the credit for a team that was produced 3 years
after he got banned.
>
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This. (but put more eloquently than I could have managed)
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Re: Conor O'Shea Performance Director at the RFU
DIR By: KiltedQuin
Date: December 3, 2019, 10:25 am
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COS built on the side that Deano started. He gave the players
the freedom to play. And we won the Premiership. Though to be
fair and this is a personal view COS is an excellent elite
sports manager rather than a Director of sport. Although he's
not that bad at being a DOR.
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Re: Conor O'Shea Performance Director at the RFU
DIR By: RodneyRegis
Date: December 3, 2019, 2:52 pm
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Bloodgate team
Harlequins: Brown, Strettle, Tiesi, Turner-Hall, Monye; N Evans,
Care; Jones, Botha, Ross, Percival, Robson, Robshaw, Skinner
(capt), Easter.
Replacements: Malone for N Evans (47), J Evans for Percival
(69), Williams for Malone (69). Not Used: Fuga, Lambert, Guest,
Gomarsall.
AP winners
Harlequins: Brown; Williams, Lowe, Turner-Hall, Monye; Evans,
Care; Marler, Gray, Johnston, Kohn, Robson, Fa'asavalu, Robshaw,
Easter.
Replacements: Buchanan, Lambert, Collier, Vallejos, Guest,
Dickson, Clegg, Hopper.
Seems a fair turnaround in 3 years. Deano had a fair few players
in or before their prime, and a few past their best years. Sure
cos didn't ring many in, but that was the key to his success -
bringing the academy through and retaining those homegrown
players through a pretty grim period. I've no problem with
criticising him for waht came after, but he did an incredible
job for us for his first 4 years.
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