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Quote:BathMatt53
Given the limited numbers of backs, its not great timing for Levi Davis to be away with the X-Factor, he would be getting some valuable game time otherwise - potentially his only opportunities this year with the cavalry on their way back soon?
COYB!
Quote:Any rugby player can be out of a job any week with a career ending injury. I think it's great to encourage them to have back-up careers or to be working towards an after rugby career. Or maybe he just wants a break from the awful coaching setup.OutsideBathQuote:BathMatt53
Given the limited numbers of backs, its not great timing for Levi Davis to be away with the X-Factor, he would be getting some valuable game time otherwise - potentially his only opportunities this year with the cavalry on their way back soon?
COYB!
Levi Davis needs to decide whether he wants to be a rugby player or not.
Quote:hemingtonQuote:Any rugby player can be out of a job any week with a career ending injury. I think it's great to encourage them to have back-up careers or to be working towards an after rugby career. Or maybe he just wants a break from the awful coaching setup.OutsideBathQuote:BathMatt53
Given the limited numbers of backs, its not great timing for Levi Davis to be away with the X-Factor, he would be getting some valuable game time otherwise - potentially his only opportunities this year with the cavalry on their way back soon?
COYB!
Levi Davis needs to decide whether he wants to be a rugby player or not.
Quote:Yeah, a bit PO’d with this as well. I might fire up a Unibet account instead.Optimist
Cheers Stu - that prompted me to log on to Bet365,. Only joined to be able to livestream games and now it appears they don’t any more. Still, I discovered I had £20 credit which I’d forgotten. Might have a flutter on next England coach.
Quote:22Dropout
30-22 final score. Off for a few beers to drown the double sorrow.
Quote:ken_jnr
I am about to leave the ground and I was happy to take the LBP. The onfield leadership to realise we have no attacking threat for 79 minutes was utterly pathetic. We have a pack to win a tight game and a plan to make sure it isn’t tight.
Quote:Supermoto
When is it not "too soon" to panic?!
Quote:Ali1969
Another example of lack of our composure - With a LBP in the bag we try and create the miracle play and end up giving away a penalty and coming away with nothing.
Niaive to say the least..
Quote:Bathovalballer
Well Mr Hooper bottom of the table and still no attack to speak of. Who is this bloke Dempsey? What does he do apart from fill up the soap dispensers at the Spa?
Sorry guys, the pair have to go. Every respect for Hatley but he is going to have to shore up the forwards, sort out the defence and instigate an attack. No pressure there then. Or possibly he may stay in Japan on the saki.
What were we doing try to play from our own half when a losing bonus point was there for the taking. Very poor decision and woeful on field leadership. Not unusual for Bath and a continuing thread......
Ah well. Did people see what Irish nearly achieved at Saracens? They got closer than we have done in years.
10th is looking over ambitious.
Quote:ballsout
I was there. Free tickets from a mate.
It was awful. Pointless listing how we gave away the bonus point in the last play by trying to run out of our try line. Or couldn’t control the ball a few seconds before half time before penalty for holding on and try to Wasps right on HT.
Frankly a good thing we’re bottom. Hopefully the catalyst for a compete overhaul of this shambles of a club, on and off the field. Fed up with this nonsense.
Quote:B4thB4ckQuote:ballsout
I was there. Free tickets from a mate.
It was awful. Pointless listing how we gave away the bonus point in the last play by trying to run out of our try line. Or couldn’t control the ball a few seconds before half time before penalty for holding on and try to Wasps right on HT.
Frankly a good thing we’re bottom. Hopefully the catalyst for a compete overhaul of this shambles of a club, on and off the field. Fed up with this nonsense.
If you had that power would you wait for the RWC players to return first and see what Hoops (or potentially a new HC) can do with them?
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I was there. Free tickets from a mate.
It was awful. Pointless listing how we gave away the bonus point in the last play by trying to run out of our try line. Or couldn’t control the ball a few seconds before half time before penalty for holding on and try to Wasps right on HT.
Frankly a good thing we’re bottom. Hopefully the catalyst for a compete overhaul of this shambles of a club, on and off the field. Fed up with this nonsense.
If you had that power would you wait for the RWC players to return first and see what Hoops (or potentially a new HC) can do with them?
They haven’t helped in years so I’m not sure what our out of their depth coaches can do. Genuinely don’t care about results for the rest of the season, in fact finishing 11th or 12th will be better in the long run. The club can’t go on like this.
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I was there. Free tickets from a mate.
It was awful. Pointless listing how we gave away the bonus point in the last play by trying to run out of our try line. Or couldn’t control the ball a few seconds before half time before penalty for holding on and try to Wasps right on HT.
Frankly a good thing we’re bottom. Hopefully the catalyst for a compete overhaul of this shambles of a club, on and off the field. Fed up with this nonsense.
If you had that power would you wait for the RWC players to return first and see what Hoops (or potentially a new HC) can do with them?
They haven’t helped in years so I’m not sure what our out of their depth coaches can do. Genuinely don’t care about results for the rest of the season, in fact finishing 11th or 12th will be better in the long run. The club can’t go on like this.
I understand but the question was about timing, when do you rip up the current plan. Too soon I would say.
Quote:Trawling
FFS stop asking for the umpteenth reboot. You can't invent a culture, you have to build it.
Quote:Bath Supporter Jack
I bet we beat the team we are up against next week!
Quote:Trawling
Well, Bristol are on their 4th? attempt to establish themselves in the Premiership. I didn't hear too many people lauding their previous efforts. They also spent a year playing much less demanding rugby in the Championship getting it right. Finally what do you mean by culture in their case? If it's about running ball from everywhere, I think you would have found lots of their own fans complaining of naivety last year and asking for a re-think: if you mean splashing big cash to get people in, that's ironically easier if you are under the cap in the first place; if you mean rebuilding your stadium, we know only too well the issues there and if you mean sticking a furry animal on the badge - good grief!
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FFS stop asking for the umpteenth reboot. You can't invent a culture, you have to build it.
Talk to any ex player and they’ll tell you how much of an utter shambles the club is. And it’s not bitterness, they left BECAUSE it’s in such a sorry state. Nobody has a good word to say.
Quote:Bathovalballer
Mr H is only part of the problem. The main one is the man or persons who appointed him to that position for which he is hugely unqualified, especially without suitably qualified and experienced lieutenants to support him. It is palpably not entirely his fault.
Quote:ballsout
What positives are there to say about a club regularly filled with big name players, that’s finished in the top 4 a grand total of 1 time in nine years?
There is a reason for this constant underperformance year after year and it isn’t because we’re currently lacking a head coach in 2019/20.
Craig blunders by sticking his nose in. We lost Matson for that reason and he and Tarquin idiotically then appointed Hooper and Rock now. There’s plenty more issues but that’s the top end problem.
Quote:Bath Hammer
I have an excellent idea. Since BoB has such intricate...!
Quote:Bathovalballer
take on the pragmatism of the Connolly years,