My fellow Ospreyslians, where do we sit as a club/region etc? Well recent results have exposed the serious issues we still suffer from, our first choice 23 is theoretically the best it has been for some time....but get beneath that and we have a bit of a mess with a raft of limited players, bad players and talented but injury prone players.
The coaching team are rather weak as well, defence being the most obvious. This seems to have been noticed by the higher ups.
Seeing the post game interview with Toby Booth from yesterday he seems pretty clear he seems to think we need a lot of work, and that this is going to be largely solved by bringing in youngsters. To be honest I think he is wrong, our production line of players is far too patchy for that. We need to look outside of Wales for some kind of solution.
Now yes I am worried by these issues BUT, that we seem to have at least partly understood them is a bit of a relief. After a decade of just ignoring problems when they arose we at least react to setbacks, if a bit slowly. This gives me some hope.
How does everyone else feel about where we are?
Any news on the Mike Ruddock zoom meeting for trust members that was mentioned a little while back.
That would be a chance for questions to be asked on the university project he alluded to a while back plus the progression of a more professional academy structure which he also mentioned a while back.
Booth mentioned in his post match interview that there were things going on behind the scenes which would allow the regions to become effective but were certain,y not quick fixes… any ideas apart from the super regions route?