Howley and co promised us that they had recognized our limited play, that they had taken steps to vary things – that they had an effective plan B in place. I even wrote a blog post about what I thought it was going to be, based on what they told us.
I was wrong, Howley lied. We didn’t have a plan B, we had the same plan A we have had since they took over.
It’s not working
Teams have us figured out. Don’t get me wrong we are still good enough to challenge most teams, but we’re not going to win games against the big teams based entirely on hitting people as hard as we can – which is a lot of plan A.
We’re not threatening the tryline, we are not testing defences, we are not hitting from a number of angles. We are simply predictable.
So where is that plan B we were promised? When are we going to start really making defences react to us?
As Jonathon Davies said, Stephen Jones, Roberts and Shanklin in a midfield is too one dimensional. Without Henson we need to find other outlets for creativity – and on current form with the Ospreys the answer is James Hook at 12. Something I was against before but have been proven wrong on.
Some come on Welsh management, stop thinking we can hit hard enough and that is all, give us some creativity.
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The problem is not at international level, The problem stems from the awful coaching at regional level. Our forwards for some reason do not stay on their feet they flop to the floor they do not challenge at the breakdown, this is what they are told to do for their regional clubs and Gatland and co. cannot change their training in the short space of time they have to coach them for international duty. In my opinion you should get rid of Idiots like Dai Young who was crap as a player and is crap as a coach and there should be continuity of coaching. Our regional coaches should be training our players to play in a manner that is similar to how we would like them to play at international level. Our clubs are failing at club level to produce any decent rugby so is it any shock that we make lackluster New Zealand sides look great.