Exeter vs Saracens

[Digby]

You need as many dynamic 33 year old bald dudes as you can lay your hands on.

First you bang on about Heinz, now you're onto dynamic players, either you're just now aping a bald orange man as you leap from subject to subject with little to no attention span or you think Heinz is dynamic, which is the worse charge I ask?

[Digby]

I meant which bit was cultural- the criticism of players (though criticism can be positive, even positively done) or the dev/promotion of players?

For me it pervades across the whole. Fletcher and Walton being the standard bearers for change, so thank god the RFU came to its senses and ditched them under the enlightened rule of Ryan (actually I found that odd as whenever I've heard Ryan talk he makes a lot of sense)

Ok; I was thinking the former was definitely a long term cultural thang, the latter (and I was thinking post age group rep rugby, where losing walton and fletcher was a heinous crime, and agreed on Ryan, but lets park that) more a DOR/Head coach behaviour driven by results. But I guess its really the same thing.

Sanderson (was it Sanderson?) in today's game noted that in such conditions it was about winning your set piece, taking some scrum penalties and waiting for the opposition to make mistakes. Just no ambition to play, and yet at times Sarries even a man down nearly put points on the board putting the ball through the hand.