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<blockquote data-quote="Vieux Talonneur" data-source="post: 1024581" data-attributes="member: 73144"><p>Trust me it would be nothing compared to how we felt when he ended up the wrong side of Offa's Dyke.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Disagree. </p><p></p><p>Group stages were par - with Arg beating themselves with an early red. No-ones fault Fra didn't happen but that was a potential banana skin avoided. Knockout was good, very good, dire. So maybe a little credit in the bank but really not enough to dine out on.</p><p></p><p>The winning streak at least showed we had a reasonable mentality over a sustained period although we were lucky to get away with several poor performances which sure enough subsequently translated to results.</p><p></p><p>I just don't buy the whole need for boom or bust. I remember reading an article about one of the US airlines a while back - they targeted the same growth target year on year irrespective of market conditions and achieved it resulting in an even upward growth. Seemed unambitious in some years but brilliant when things weren't so good. Surely that's the kind of incremental year on year improvement we should be aiming for especially as this is an experienced team that it's harder to teach new tricks to.</p><p></p><p>According to the Times, since Underhill made his debut in Jun 17 Jones has capped 24 new players who average less than 2 appearances each in starting XVs. Make of that what you will - maybe he didn't like what he saw or maybe Plan A is just to stick with the tried and trusted.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vieux Talonneur, post: 1024581, member: 73144"] Trust me it would be nothing compared to how we felt when he ended up the wrong side of Offa’s Dyke. Disagree. Group stages were par - with Arg beating themselves with an early red. No-ones fault Fra didn’t happen but that was a potential banana skin avoided. Knockout was good, very good, dire. So maybe a little credit in the bank but really not enough to dine out on. The winning streak at least showed we had a reasonable mentality over a sustained period although we were lucky to get away with several poor performances which sure enough subsequently translated to results. I just don’t buy the whole need for boom or bust. I remember reading an article about one of the US airlines a while back - they targeted the same growth target year on year irrespective of market conditions and achieved it resulting in an even upward growth. Seemed unambitious in some years but brilliant when things weren’t so good. Surely that’s the kind of incremental year on year improvement we should be aiming for especially as this is an experienced team that it’s harder to teach new tricks to. According to the Times, since Underhill made his debut in Jun 17 Jones has capped 24 new players who average less than 2 appearances each in starting XVs. Make of that what you will - maybe he didn’t like what he saw or maybe Plan A is just to stick with the tried and trusted. [/QUOTE]
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