: Sun Aug 16, 2009 10:05 am
Tricky Dicky wrote:
Just a thought with no substantiation but.......
If IFL is going to bring in a new head coach ( which is almost a certainty ) then does anyone think this is why IFL has said we will go with the same squad again given the amount of players that are off contract the end of next season.
That way the new coach will spend 1 season assesing what he has got before deciding who to keep and who to let go so that the team becomes his team. iE minimal changes but the players that are brought in are the new coaches players and not those of his predisesor. In that way the team will become the new coaches team very quick rather than a sqaud of players chosen by his predisesor.
I think it's self-evident that our main recruitment plan for next year has been affected by the visa thing. Clearly it was going to be Carl Webb, but that's now not going to happen.
My reading of the rest of our proposed recruitment is that it wasn't going to have been extensive anyway. IL may be interested in seeing what a new higher quality coach can get out of our underperforming squad, and I don't think that's a bad idea if an offshoot of it is that yet more youngsters are brought through and given a chance.
If IL was serious when he said that from now on we're only interested in overseas buys if they're from the top drawer, then I'm in favour of this policy. But at present, we do need a strong prop, and - whatever the reason - that's one area where we've currently failed.
