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<blockquote data-quote="Bullitt" data-source="post: 84278"><p><div align="center">I WANT A WIN, NOT REVENGE: RUGBY CLUB</p><p></p><p><img src="http://static.sky.com/images/pictures/1295658.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p></div><div align="center">Three defeat out of three was not the return to the Guinness Premiership that any one at Harlequins was dreaming about over the summer, least of all coach Dean Richards.</div></p><p><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">Richards always knew it was going to be tough and with his old club Leicester Tigers the next club they face their is a very real possibility of a fourth defeat and an uphill climb for the rest of the season.</div></p><p><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">So where has it gone wrong for Quins? As you would expect from Deano, there was no mucking about in his assessment, as he told the <em>Rugby Club</em>.</div></p><p><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">He said: "I would prefer to say that we have held our own in the scrum, but the lineout hasn't functioned as well as we would have liked it to, we haven't controlled the game in the areas where we really want to and we haven't played in the right areas of the field as well."</div></p><p><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">Plenty to work on then, but because it is Leicester who arrive at the Stoop on Saturday it would have been easy for the former England No. 8 to be distracted in his preparations to take on the team he led to domestic domination and European ecstasy.</div></p><p><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">But while the media will climb into the story of Richards taking on his old club and ill-feeling bubbling below the surface, Richards has not time for it and will be cordial and in fact sees his sacking as something of a blessing.</div></p><p><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">"I still have a lot of friends up there and I will shake hands with everyone," he said. "There is no one I will go out of my way to avoid. I am not like that, not of that ilk.</div></p><p><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">"I left Leicester and I had two of the best years that I have had, from a family perspective. I had six months off after I did get the sack and then went to Grenoble, and I had a wonderful two, two and half years. You can't really qualify what that means to my family.</div></p><p><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">"It is just another game. Perhaps had things turned out differently for me and I hadn't had those two wonderful years with my family, I might have bore resentment.</div></p><p><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">"But life is all about experiences. I felt that the events leading up to the sacking, the sacking itself and post the sacking are experiences that you learn from. I would like to think I did learn from them.</div></p><p><div align="center"> </div><div align="center">"I will probably dance a jig if we win on Saturday, but because we have won. I still believe that Leicester is a quality side. If you look at their squad on paper, I believe it is the best squad in the Premiership. I think we can win on Saturday, 15 players go out against 15 players, so we can win."</div></p><p><div align="center"></p><p></div><div align="center"> </div></p><p></p><p>Source: skysports.com</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bullitt, post: 84278"] <div align="center">I WANT A WIN, NOT REVENGE: RUGBY CLUB [img]http://static.sky.com/images/pictures/1295658.jpg[/img] </div><div align="center">Three defeat out of three was not the return to the Guinness Premiership that any one at Harlequins was dreaming about over the summer, least of all coach Dean Richards.</div> <div align="center"> </div><div align="center">Richards always knew it was going to be tough and with his old club Leicester Tigers the next club they face their is a very real possibility of a fourth defeat and an uphill climb for the rest of the season.</div> <div align="center"> </div><div align="center">So where has it gone wrong for Quins? As you would expect from Deano, there was no mucking about in his assessment, as he told the [i]Rugby Club[/i].</div> <div align="center"> </div><div align="center">He said: "I would prefer to say that we have held our own in the scrum, but the lineout hasn't functioned as well as we would have liked it to, we haven't controlled the game in the areas where we really want to and we haven't played in the right areas of the field as well."</div> <div align="center"> </div><div align="center">Plenty to work on then, but because it is Leicester who arrive at the Stoop on Saturday it would have been easy for the former England No. 8 to be distracted in his preparations to take on the team he led to domestic domination and European ecstasy.</div> <div align="center"> </div><div align="center">But while the media will climb into the story of Richards taking on his old club and ill-feeling bubbling below the surface, Richards has not time for it and will be cordial and in fact sees his sacking as something of a blessing.</div> <div align="center"> </div><div align="center">"I still have a lot of friends up there and I will shake hands with everyone," he said. "There is no one I will go out of my way to avoid. I am not like that, not of that ilk.</div> <div align="center"> </div><div align="center">"I left Leicester and I had two of the best years that I have had, from a family perspective. I had six months off after I did get the sack and then went to Grenoble, and I had a wonderful two, two and half years. You can't really qualify what that means to my family.</div> <div align="center"> </div><div align="center">"It is just another game. Perhaps had things turned out differently for me and I hadn't had those two wonderful years with my family, I might have bore resentment.</div> <div align="center"> </div><div align="center">"But life is all about experiences. I felt that the events leading up to the sacking, the sacking itself and post the sacking are experiences that you learn from. I would like to think I did learn from them.</div> <div align="center"> </div><div align="center">"I will probably dance a jig if we win on Saturday, but because we have won. I still believe that Leicester is a quality side. If you look at their squad on paper, I believe it is the best squad in the Premiership. I think we can win on Saturday, 15 players go out against 15 players, so we can win."</div> <div align="center"> </div><div align="center"> </div> Source: skysports.com [/QUOTE]
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