Gloucester vs Leicester - Sunday

[Epaminondas Pules]

Tigers were very poor in that opening half hour. Any kind of defending was purely optional it seemed. The subs helped and they emerged with a bit of credit.
Glos were purring along with Cips in full cry and then they got casual and started making too many errors.

Score line is what it is, but this was done in the first 30 and the. glaws stepped off the gas. With the lineups it is not anything I’m concerned with. What continues to concern me is the seeming lack of any defensive style or method. I’m just not seeing what we are trying to achieve. I’m hoping at some point they actually think coaching some form or defence might be worthwhile.

[Epaminondas Pules]

Tigers were very poor in that opening half hour. Any kind of defending was purely optional it seemed. The subs helped and they emerged with a bit of credit.
Glos were purring along with Cips in full cry and then they got casual and started making too many errors.

Score line is what it is, but this was done in the first 30 and the. glaws stepped off the gas. With the lineups it is not anything I’m concerned with. What continues to concern me is the seeming lack of any defensive style or method. I’m just not seeing what we are trying to achieve. I’m hoping at some point they actually think coaching some form or defence might be worthwhile.

[FKAS]

Tigers were very poor in that opening half hour. Any kind of defending was purely optional it seemed. The subs helped and they emerged with a bit of credit.
Glos were purring along with Cips in full cry and then they got casual and started making too many errors.

Score line is what it is, but this was done in the first 30 and the. glaws stepped off the gas. With the lineups it is not anything I’m concerned with. What continues to concern me is the seeming lack of any defensive style or method. I’m just not seeing what we are trying to achieve. I’m hoping at some point they actually think coaching some form or defence might be worthwhile.

There's clearly a defensive structure we are trying to utilise and this was a key reason Ford came on. First phase of Glaws attack and Ford was noticeably bringing up the defensive line at a much greater speed. The issue seemed to be our pack was defending to narrow and the backs weren't dragging them out. Forced the midfield narrow as the whole thing concertinaed leaving a lot of space out wide with Porter normally left in no man's land desperate for support. More experience at half back saw better organisation and Glaws going nowhere in attack for half an hour before the final Glaws foray. The amount of attention given to the Glaws playmakers for the first twenty minutes of the second half seemed to rattle them and improved our defence notably.

Your midfield has to lead the line speed in order not to leave massive gaps but if they are looking over their shoulder at room out wide then they are always likely to slow down and try to drift. Need some of the younger lads to step up and start leading that defence though. To reliant on the more experienced players at the minute.

Our breakdown work was again good even without a natural openside in the squad. I like how we are competing more there but generally keeping our discipline. Got to start winning more collisions as we didn't do that for three quarters of the game and haven't done so reliabily since the restart.