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Re: Director of Rugby, do we actually need one?
DIR By: Somardino
Date: March 20, 2021, 5:32 pm
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Putting titles aside, and at risk of over simplifying, there
seems to be two questions to answer here; 1) does the club need
another person in a leadership role in the Rugby department, 2)
do we need someone to come in and lead the Coaching team.
We’re pretty much guessing at question 1, but indications from
the club are pretty consistent that the answer is yes.
While we also don’t know the internal workings around question
2, what we’re seeing on the pitch is increasingly suggestive
that the answer may be no.
So I think we may need someone credible enough to backstop the
Coaching team (without being involved routinely in coaching) and
who has the skill set to be the link bringing all the rugby
aspects together, enabling us to keep a broad view across all
the rugby programmes (Men’s, Women’s, Academy, Age Groups,
Schools, Outreach etc).
Seems to me the club could do worse than dig out the phone
number for one Mr T. Diprose.
#Post#: 62035--------------------------------------------------
Re: Director of Rugby, do we actually need one?
DIR By: Aha!
Date: March 20, 2021, 6:58 pm
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It takes a lot of effort and planning to play what's in front of
you, and to play intuitively and spontaneously. So far so good,
but we'll be worked out sooner or later and when we hit a dip in
form we'll need authoritative and tough decision-making. This
won't come from a player leadership group or from coaches who
are best mates. We need a hardnosed DoR to make unpopular
decisions and to shoulder the abuse from short-memoried fans.
#Post#: 62036--------------------------------------------------
Re: Director of Rugby, do we actually need one?
DIR By: Le Tiss
Date: March 20, 2021, 7:27 pm
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Well I am happy to see how far this approach can take us before
reverting to established wisdom.
#Post#: 62046--------------------------------------------------
Re: Director of Rugby, do we actually need one?
DIR By: Banstead Quin
Date: March 21, 2021, 4:14 am
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Aha! Is right, this is all fine whilst things are going well.
Once the form dips and we start losing games and coughing up
ball, conceding off first phase again the cracks will appear and
it'll all fall apart spectacularly.
A light touch DOR/Head Coach who slowly integrates themselves
into things would still help the coaches feel empowered but you
need that different voice sometimes. Seeing the wood for the
trees and all that...
#Post#: 62053--------------------------------------------------
Re: Director of Rugby, do we actually need one?
DIR By: PhilQuin2
Date: March 21, 2021, 6:23 am
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- I'm with Le Tiss et al - old engineers' saying: "If it works,
don't fix it".
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Re: Director of Rugby, do we actually need one?
DIR By: Fearless Fred
Date: March 21, 2021, 6:53 am
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As a Test engineer, my motto's always been "if it works, keep
hitting it with a hammer/more electricity until it stops so you
can see what it can cope with"!
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Re: Director of Rugby, do we actually need one?
DIR By: MadMax
Date: March 21, 2021, 7:41 am
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--- Quote from: Fearless Fred link ---
>
> As a Test engineer, my motto's always been "if it works, keep
hitting it with a hammer/more electricity until it stops so you
can see what it can cope with"!
>
--- End Quote ---
And how is your thumb working nowadays?
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Re: Director of Rugby, do we actually need one?
DIR By: Fearless Fred
Date: March 21, 2021, 7:54 am
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--- Quote from: MadMax link ---
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> And how is your thumb working nowadays?
>
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Thumbs are overrated...
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Re: Director of Rugby, do we actually need one?
DIR By: Camquin
Date: March 21, 2021, 8:39 am
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There are a number of young directors of Rugby in the
Championship who could be considered.
I know Rowland Winter has ambition to manage at a higher level -
and having taken Cambridge from National 2 to 1 and Cov from Nat
1 to the Championship he needs a new challenge.
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Re: Director of Rugby, do we actually need one?
DIR By: deadlyfrom5yardsout
Date: March 21, 2021, 10:19 am
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We also need to get some sort of succession planning in place.
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