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Re: Areas for improvement
DIR By: Brown Bottle
Date: June 15, 2022, 7:52 am
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> Wouldn't it be Marvellous to have a new fella at lock next
season like the green chap in the background here?
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Isn't that Mark Labbett?
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Re: Areas for improvement
DIR By: Joethequin
Date: June 15, 2022, 3:14 pm
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Beastly observation 😅
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Re: Areas for improvement
DIR By: poorfour
Date: June 15, 2022, 4:20 pm
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--- Quote from: Joethequin link ---
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> Wouldn't it be Marvellous to have a new fella at lock next
season like the green chap in the background here?
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The chap in front looks to be in Quins colours already, and
might prove to be worthy of them.
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Re: Areas for improvement
DIR By: Quinston Churchill
Date: June 16, 2022, 3:29 am
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> I'm not sure how the two things tie together, to be honest.
"We're not a smart team" - okay, that's an opinion and I'm sure
it's a complicated thing to assess especially in comparison to
other teams, but let's go with it.
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> "Any team knew if they strangled it and turned it into an arm
wrestle we would falter, and that’s exactly what would happen."
- what's that got to do with being smart? Being dragged into an
arm wrestle isn't about smarts, it's about whether the
opposition can implement and impose that game plan on us. Being
able to tie us down, being able to drag us into a contest at the
breakdown, being able to deny us the space - that's not really
anything to do with Quins not being smart and more to do with
the skills and tactics of the opposition.
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> Certainly I didn't watch the first half of the Sarries game
and go "gosh, I'm so annoyed we took them on the forwards like
that" - it was a successful tactic and things started to go
wrong elsewhere.
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> There's never been a team that was capable of having a
free-flowing gameplan without serious work from the forwards,
and never one that was able to have that gameplan every time
against the highest quality teams.
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This is sort of what I meant when I said I agreed with 90% of
Maidstone Quin’s post.
I don’t think we’re a particularly ‘smart’ team and we can often
stick to a gameplan that’s not working for too long when we
should be quicker at recognising how we need to adapt.
However, when team’s drag us in to an arm wrestle, I don’t think
it’s about us ‘faltering’. As Jammy said, it’s more to do with
those teams successfully forcing their gameplan on us.
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