All of those types of factors will bode well for our industry as a whole, ... But they've yet to materialize fully so that we can say, 'Yup, we're off to the races.' |
And, while there is huge competition for places now, those 22 players deserved to be in for another game after that terrific result last weekend. |
As you know, this business comes in big chunks, and the world stood still on September 11, and two big chunks pushed into the fourth quarter. |
Bath could have won the game comfortably, |
Brian's trained all week and picked things up very quickly. Coming in at centre would have been more difficult but he's picked up things on the wing. |
Capacity buys are just not happening at this time. |
He has been a real find. He will have a chance of an international jersey one day, but we have to be very careful because we have seen it happen so many times, someone plays well in their first season and everyone goes overboard. |
He's travelled a long way and took a few days to get over the jet lag but he seems ready to unleash himself on someone! He's very quiet, very serious about his rugby. No-one here wants to oppose him in contact drills! |
Hopefully if all goes well we can get a few more Bristolians back at the club, but we have got to survive for that to happen, |
I don't think anything has changed. We are still going to fight and scrap for everything. |
I hope the weather's not like this at the weekend. We're a dry weather team. We like to move it around. We haven't a pack which has the bulk of Gloucester's and we haven't spent as much time on our kicking game. So, it's fingers crossed for reasonable weather. |
I think we are safe now. |
I was surprised it was that comfortable, but we made very few errors. This result is a massive step towards keeping this club in the Premiership. |
I wasn't expecting that, to be honest. It is a dream start, it will really lift the confidence and make my job a lot easier. |
I'm going to have to rethink my strategy, |