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Quinssa Pre-Season Dinner - Friday, 6th July 2018
DIR By: guest202
Date: July 6, 2018, 9:11 am
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Anyone on this board also doing this ....
Quinssa are delighted to confirm that tickets are now on sale
for our popular annual ‘Quinssa Pre Season Dinner’ which this
year will take place at the Twickenham Stoop (Kings Bar) from
7pm until 1am on Friday, 6th July.
The evening will include:
3 course sit down meal
Squad attendance
Masters of Ceremony
Disco
Supporters’ Awards
Complimentary wine on each table
Cash bar
Raffle
Free Parking at the Stoop
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Re: Quinssa Pre-Season Dinner - Friday, 6th July 2018
DIR By: RodneyRegis
Date: July 6, 2018, 10:50 am
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I was gonna give it a miss until I realised they have a cash
bar!
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Re: Quinssa Pre-Season Dinner - Friday, 6th July 2018
DIR By: poorfour
Date: July 6, 2018, 12:47 pm
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In a taxi on the way there...
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Re: Quinssa Pre-Season Dinner - Friday, 6th July 2018
DIR By: poorfour
Date: July 7, 2018, 12:16 am
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As ever, thanks very much to Emma and the committee for
organising this, the club for supporting it and Lambo and Kevin
for competing. We had a great evening and some really
interesting rugby and non-rugby discussion.
Here’s the most interesting rugby-related stuff.
They’ve split the DoR and General Manager roles so that the DoR
can have a total focus on getting the best 23 players out on the
pitch each week. There was a lot of praise for what Billy
Millard is doing in the GM role and how much the tone has
changed through him and Gustard in pre-season.
One big focus has been on getting the players to spend time
together and have fun away from the pitch so that they build up
more trust and willingness to work for each other - it was
commented that last year they didn’t seem to have that
connection. Which said, someone else pointed out that the senior
players who were meant to bring that spent most of the year
injured - as an example Archie White (still an academy player)
played 20 matches last year, which was not what they had planned
for him (or for Marcus Smith).
The rationale around the choice of centres was explained to us
by comparison with Sarries. They can have Barritt (a classic
defensive / crash ball guy but not a creator in attack) at 12
because Alex Goode brings the creativity and distribution from
fullback. Mike Brown isn’t that sort of fullback, so Quins want
to have ball-playing ability at 12, which Saili, Tapuai and Lang
all bring. That was part of a wider conversation about getting
combinations of players across the pitch.
Catrakilis and Bothma both reported as fully fit and ready to go
(as are some of the other long term injuries - Horwill,
Collier), with Saili in full training but they are taking it
cautiously because it’s a concussion.
Gustard is likely to want to reshape the squad over the season
by trading quantity for quality. So we should expect to see a
few big signings and a number of “club” players leaving, with
the burden put on the academy to step up as necessary.
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Re: Quinssa Pre-Season Dinner - Friday, 6th July 2018
DIR By: guest25
Date: July 7, 2018, 12:28 am
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Thanks, Poorfour.
Boogying until the small hours and still on the board at 6 a.m.
to give us the low down. That's commitment.
Good turnout from the club (players/management)?
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Re: Quinssa Pre-Season Dinner - Friday, 6th July 2018
DIR By: Adrian
Date: July 7, 2018, 1:39 am
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Thanks for the update Poorfour
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Re: Quinssa Pre-Season Dinner - Friday, 6th July 2018
DIR By: InsertQuinsPunHere
Date: July 7, 2018, 2:53 am
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Thanks for the info :)
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Re: Quinssa Pre-Season Dinner - Friday, 6th July 2018
DIR By: Nico Wilson
Date: July 7, 2018, 3:18 am
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Thanks for the update. Interesting comment about players
spending time together off the pitch. Wasn’t this a big focus of
Conor? I remember Ugo, JTH and Danny often talking about it.
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Re: Quinssa Pre-Season Dinner - Friday, 6th July 2018
DIR By: DOK
Date: July 7, 2018, 12:38 pm
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Maybe there was a "baby and bath water" reaction when Conor
left? Perhaps everything he did was changed instead of leaving
some of it in place? Maybe.
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Re: Quinssa Pre-Season Dinner - Friday, 6th July 2018
DIR By: poorfour
Date: July 7, 2018, 8:30 pm
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In terms of turnout, it was a smaller number of guests than in
the last few years, so there was a commensurately smaller player
turnout as there were two players per table, mostly Academy but
Wallace and Catrakilis were both there. The Davids and Dippy
were also there.
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