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<blockquote data-quote="windsorroberts" data-source="post: 503749" data-attributes="member: 61591"><p>Hello all from a recent newish resident of Biarritz. </p><p></p><p>I also agree with most of the above but feel Biarritz have been stifled by a terrible lack of foresight pre season (from a recruitment point of view) but also by the coaching of Lagisquet. He is clearly well liked by Blanco but from what I have been told he didn't have the players respect, he talks down to them all, is hugely critical (rather than working with players he put's them down) and most importantly for me his approach doesn't fit with the Biarritz traditional style of running rugby ... Who wants to watch high ball after high ball when you have the likes of Ngwenya, Balshaw and Haylett-Petty to run at the opposition? </p><p></p><p>Our pre-season recruitment drive was inept but was compounded by the World Cup call up's however we really should have anticipated being without Yachvili, Harinordoquy, Barcella, Marconnet - not that he actually went, Ngwenya, Carizza and Bosch (with Lakafia being the unexpected addition). We played almost half the season without a recognised scrum half or fly half and pitched a couple of seven's players in at the deep end with almost no experience around them!</p><p></p><p>The squad for next year then:</p><p></p><p>Props - Synaegel,Van Staden, Broster, Gomez Kodela, Barcella and Lebrequier.</p><p>Hookers - Heguy, Genevois, Guinazu and August.</p><p>2nd row - Thion, Taele, Lund E, Dubarry and Marie.</p><p>Back row - Harinordoquy, Lakafia, Gray, Lund M, Guyot, Lauret and Molcard.</p><p>Scrum half - Yachvili, Lesgourgues and Roussarie</p><p>Fly half - Berquist and Peyreylongue </p><p>Wings - Ngwenya, Brew, Thomas.</p><p>Centre - Traille, Gimenez, Burotu</p><p>Full back - Balshaw</p><p></p><p>with Haylett-Petty, Bosch, Baby, Platon, Barraque able to cover wing, centre and full back.</p><p></p><p>It's an improvement but we are still four or five players short with the following needing more depth in my opinion - centre, full back, wing, prop and second row and ideally a back up scrum half and fly half although I feel that if Yachvili is playing we can get away with a back up fly half as he takes so much pressure off and (hopefully) likewise with an actual fly half.</p><p></p><p>Just my thoughts but this squad could get past the group stages but any further will be an achievement.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="windsorroberts, post: 503749, member: 61591"] Hello all from a recent newish resident of Biarritz. I also agree with most of the above but feel Biarritz have been stifled by a terrible lack of foresight pre season (from a recruitment point of view) but also by the coaching of Lagisquet. He is clearly well liked by Blanco but from what I have been told he didn't have the players respect, he talks down to them all, is hugely critical (rather than working with players he put's them down) and most importantly for me his approach doesn't fit with the Biarritz traditional style of running rugby ... Who wants to watch high ball after high ball when you have the likes of Ngwenya, Balshaw and Haylett-Petty to run at the opposition? Our pre-season recruitment drive was inept but was compounded by the World Cup call up's however we really should have anticipated being without Yachvili, Harinordoquy, Barcella, Marconnet - not that he actually went, Ngwenya, Carizza and Bosch (with Lakafia being the unexpected addition). We played almost half the season without a recognised scrum half or fly half and pitched a couple of seven's players in at the deep end with almost no experience around them! The squad for next year then: Props - Synaegel,Van Staden, Broster, Gomez Kodela, Barcella and Lebrequier. Hookers - Heguy, Genevois, Guinazu and August. 2nd row - Thion, Taele, Lund E, Dubarry and Marie. Back row - Harinordoquy, Lakafia, Gray, Lund M, Guyot, Lauret and Molcard. Scrum half - Yachvili, Lesgourgues and Roussarie Fly half - Berquist and Peyreylongue Wings - Ngwenya, Brew, Thomas. Centre - Traille, Gimenez, Burotu Full back - Balshaw with Haylett-Petty, Bosch, Baby, Platon, Barraque able to cover wing, centre and full back. It's an improvement but we are still four or five players short with the following needing more depth in my opinion - centre, full back, wing, prop and second row and ideally a back up scrum half and fly half although I feel that if Yachvili is playing we can get away with a back up fly half as he takes so much pressure off and (hopefully) likewise with an actual fly half. Just my thoughts but this squad could get past the group stages but any further will be an achievement. [/QUOTE]
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