Geech is Lions Coach !

[stimmers]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/739081...

Really glad it hasn't gone to someone outside of the UK and to a man who knows what it takes to win in South Africa.
Good Decision. Now i have to book my package

[disco1]

I'm happy with this decision, he has been there and has all the attributes and most importantly Gatland wont be burdened with the responsibility of running the show

[stimmers]

disco1 said:

I'm happy with this decision, he has been there and has all the attributes and most importantly Gatland wont be burdened with the responsibility of running the show

I think its now 100% guaranteed that Shaun Edwards will be the main Coach. It'll be exactly the same set up as Wasps.

Wonder who the forwards coach will be ?

[disco1]

stimmers said:

Wonder who the forwards coach will be ?

Um.....let me think, possibly Monsieur Gats?

British and Irish Wasps

[Jim Campbell]

stimmers said:

disco1 said:

I'm happy with this decision, he has been there and has all the attributes and most importantly Gatland wont be burdened with the responsibility of running the show

I think its now 100% guaranteed that Shaun Edwards will be the main Coach. It'll be exactly the same set up as Wasps.

Wonder who the forwards coach will be ?

How exactly does the director of rugby role work? does Geech have a hand in day to day coaching? I ask because i noticed in the paper over here that Eddie Jones was appointed director of rugby at Saracens and a season or so later became director of coaching which sounded like a way of working one's way into a head coach position.

Looking foward to the tour. How come when the lions go to Aus or NZ do they not go to the other? Christchurch isn't much more than an hours flight from Sydney

Ta

[stimmers]

Jim Campbell said:

stimmers said:

disco1 said:

I'm happy with this decision, he has been there and has all the attributes and most importantly Gatland wont be burdened with the responsibility of running the show

I think its now 100% guaranteed that Shaun Edwards will be the main Coach. It'll be exactly the same set up as Wasps.

Wonder who the forwards coach will be ?

How exactly does the director of rugby role work? does Geech have a hand in day to day coaching? I ask because i noticed in the paper over here that Eddie Jones was appointed director of rugby at Saracens and a season or so later became director of coaching which sounded like a way of working one's way into a head coach position.

Looking foward to the tour. How come when the lions go to Aus or NZ do they not go to the other? Christchurch isn't much more than an hours flight from Sydney

Ta

Lots of different roles in rugby, and the 'job title' doesn't really ever help explain what their actual job is. In terms of Geech and Edwards at Wasps, i'd suggest that its pretty much the same as Woodward and Robinson during their Eng days.

Geech decides the tactics, gameplan (along with Edwards) and also puts in place the structure of the club. When do they travel to an away game, where do they stay, who isthe fitness coach, who is the physio etc etc. Edwards is in charge of the actual on field coaching of the players (along with Geech) and he prepares them and goes through the routines for match day. Wasps is a little different from mot GP clubs as i feel Geech an Edwards work so well together and obviously share the same view the way the game is played.

Lions have 3 different tours. They travel to SA in 2009, they will be in Australia 4 years later in 2013 and New Zealand in 2017. Thats the way its always been and they don't mix the tours up. Which is good.

Only Lions tour im interested in is the SA tour. Got to do it this time or its 12 years till it comes around again

[Jim Campbell]

Goodo ta. Still seems a bit silly to me coming all the way from the UK to Aus or NZ and not going to the other. Having been the victim of the London to Sydney flight a few times i would want to play both if i had come that far but that said i like to respect tradition, u should have heard my rants when the all blacks started wearing skin tight shirts.

Ta

[stimmers]

Jim Campbell said:

Goodo ta. Still seems a bit silly to me coming all the way from the UK to Aus or NZ and not going to the other. Having been the victim of the London to Sydney flight a few times i would want to play both if i had come that far but that said i like to respect tradition, u should have heard my rants when the all blacks started wearing skin tight shirts.

Ta

I've done the UK to Aus flight countless times and lived in Aus for a while. No matter how you travel, its horrid.

The Lions tours are setup so that yopu play 3 test matchs vs the country you visit. But you also play the club sides and provinces in that country to prepare you for the test games. Aus, NZ and SA all have enough club/provincial sides of a suitable ability that the Lions only need to travel to one country. Its not only a very special tour for us, the Country's we tour love it just as much, especially NZ and SA. To visit two places in one tour would be to take away from the fact the Lions are oly in town once every 12 years. Makes it something very special.

Its not the most important rugby event in the world, but for me its the most enjoyable and the best.

I know what you mean about the shirts. Eng's at the moment looks like its a pack of embassy fags