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<blockquote data-quote="j&#039;nuh" data-source="post: 754433" data-attributes="member: 55446"><p>It's like studying to be a teacher. You'll know how to teach your own subject because you studied it to degree level, but if you want to teach anything else, you're going to need to put your own study into it before teaching a class of others. </p><p></p><p>Rowntree can have 30 years in the role and still not be any closer to being a better coach because he has had very little guidance on certain facets of the game that he is then expected to teach. Most of his knowledge of the game comes from when he was a player. Rowntree knows what a front row needs to do from his playing days because he himself was a front rower, but he cannot put an adequate backrow together because no one has taught him how. It's no coincidence that looser forwards play, the breakdown, the carrying game, timing at the ruck, have all struggled under Rowntree, whereas the tighter elements are pretty decent in general. </p><p></p><p>What we need is someone who can work in tandem with Rowntree to fill those gaps in. Initially, Rowntree will study these new methods whilst continuing to coach scrum, lineout and tight forwards play. In the long-term, Rowntree will pick up the skills and teach them himself.</p><p></p><p>Ditching him is a legitimate option, but I feel there's a very clear strategy for improving the forwards coaching by keeping him in charge and working around his limitations for now. Dropping him for the unknown is risky.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="j'nuh, post: 754433, member: 55446"] It's like studying to be a teacher. You'll know how to teach your own subject because you studied it to degree level, but if you want to teach anything else, you're going to need to put your own study into it before teaching a class of others. Rowntree can have 30 years in the role and still not be any closer to being a better coach because he has had very little guidance on certain facets of the game that he is then expected to teach. Most of his knowledge of the game comes from when he was a player. Rowntree knows what a front row needs to do from his playing days because he himself was a front rower, but he cannot put an adequate backrow together because no one has taught him how. It's no coincidence that looser forwards play, the breakdown, the carrying game, timing at the ruck, have all struggled under Rowntree, whereas the tighter elements are pretty decent in general. What we need is someone who can work in tandem with Rowntree to fill those gaps in. Initially, Rowntree will study these new methods whilst continuing to coach scrum, lineout and tight forwards play. In the long-term, Rowntree will pick up the skills and teach them himself. Ditching him is a legitimate option, but I feel there's a very clear strategy for improving the forwards coaching by keeping him in charge and working around his limitations for now. Dropping him for the unknown is risky. [/QUOTE]
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