Dean Ryan - warning
You have been warned, Ryan tells Glaws players
Dean Ryan - warning
By Cherry Picker February 28 2008
Gloucester coach Dean Ryan has warned his table-topping team that he will not tolerate a repeat of their performance during the last Six Nations break, when they were beaten by Bristol at the Memorial Stadium. The squad bounced back with last weekend’s win over Newcastle on a busy Six Nations weekend, so the coach had a lot to think about as he planned his team for Saturday’s visit to Harlequins.
Dean Ryan - warning
Gloucester coach Dean Ryan has warned his table-topping team that he will not tolerate a repeat of their performance during the last Six Nations break, when they were beaten by Bristol at the Memorial Stadium. The squad bounced back with last weekend’s win over Newcastle on a busy Six Nations weekend, so the coach had a lot to think about as he planned his team for Saturday’s visit to Harlequins.
Does he bring back all his stars, or stick with the lads who did so well to overcome a powerful Falcons side and extend their lead at the top of the Guinness premiership to five points? Or does he go for a bit of a mixture?
Ryan was angry with the team’s performance at Bristol, and he told the Citizen this week: "Normally we pick a team on how it went the week before and where we are as a group. Obviously the Six Nations takes some of that away.
"Given the Bristol week's preparation and what we were unhappy with, we've been very keen to make sure the players know that if they wanted to be around this week, they had to turn up on Monday and show me as much - otherwise they wouldn't be.
"That doesn't mean every one who did that would play and just because you've been on international duty you wouldn't.
"Hopefully we've learnt a lesson from that and matured from it and we won't see the same basic problem we had last time.
“We've got to get a run going and try and find our form.."
We reckon that what he means is that reputations – and international caps – count for nothing and his team will be picked on merit. At least, we hope that’s what he means.
Ryan Lamb has a shoulder injury that makes him doubtful, but England’s Iain Balshaw and Lesley Vainikolo, Scotland’s Chris Paterson, Alasdair Strokosch, Rory Lawson and Ally Dickinson, Italy's Marco Bortolami and Wales’s Gareth Delve are all back in the fold hoping for a chance to make up for the Bristol debacle.
Ryan was angry with the team’s performance at Bristol, and he told the Citizen this week: "Normally we pick a team on how it went the week before and where we are as a group. Obviously the Six Nations takes some of that away.
"Given the Bristol week's preparation and what we were unhappy with, we've been very keen to make sure the players know that if they wanted to be around this week, they had to turn up on Monday and show me as much - otherwise they wouldn't be.
"That doesn't mean every one who did that would play and just because you've been on international duty you wouldn't.
"Hopefully we've learnt a lesson from that and matured from it and we won't see the same basic problem we had last time.
“We've got to get a run going and try and find our form.."
We reckon that what he means is that reputations – and international caps – count for nothing and his team will be picked on merit. At least, we hope that’s what he means.
Ryan Lamb has a shoulder injury that makes him doubtful, but England’s Iain Balshaw and Lesley Vainikolo, Scotland’s Chris Paterson, Alasdair Strokosch, Rory Lawson and Ally Dickinson, Italy's Marco Bortolami and Wales’s Gareth Delve are all back in the fold hoping for a chance to make up for the Bristol debacle.
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cheerycherry (IP Logged) Registered User |
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Re: You have been warned, Ryan tells Glaws players
This is where DR and the coaching staff really start to earn their money, a difficult GP run in soon to start plus Munster. Personally I would go with the lads who did well against Tigers and Falcons and tell them the shirt is theirs to lose, that way they are motivated to perform plus the returning internationals will have a scrap on for a starting place and the team can only benefit.. In theory!
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