Powell has ripped the heart out of this team. Whether players who have left or leaving haven’t performed is debatable, but perhaps in some areas warranted criticism, but look at what we have, a fractured team, with no cohesion. It’s got to be more than a bad apple or two, for me it’s Powell and his cohorts.

The way this club is heading we could be re-signing some of our rejects for next year's Championship campaign.

Why would our 'rejects' want to play for a disorganised Championship club who can't string 2 wins together?

At work so this'll be brief. I'm not attempting to defend Powell too much after that first half - dreadful.

Point 1: with all the changes and young players, it's going to take at least a season to get those combos working.

Point 2: those stats aren't really compatible as Powell was working on a much lower budget.

Point 3: Powell track record has shown he is a renowned attacking coach ie classy cas.

What I will have a go at is the effort in the first half - appalling and disrespectful to the fans.

I was critical of Price and thought he should have gone the year before he did, however, I don’t think there was ever a time when I questioned if the players were playing for him, and never did I question their effort. What I did question under Price was the ability to attack in opposition 20m zone.

This lot, maybe no all of them, but a big group of them aren’t playing for Powell and there will be a reason for that.

Do you think the players performed for him in each of the 3, 1st round, home knockouts to teams with much smaller budgets?

At least Price's team got to the playoffs to have the chance to disappoint. We're getting a whole season of it under Powell.

Do I think they performed? No

Do I think they put a shift in and tried (but failed miserably) to execute Prices game plan? Yes

He's been here just over half a season tasked with a total restructure - what were you expecting?

Price had 4 seasons and presided over dismal rugby with the fans leaving in droves and 3 failures at the first stage. Virtually every player became less effective under his coaching too; help me out, who improved apart from (ironically) Toby King?

Who would you get in then?

Or if you didn't want him in in the first place, who would have been your pick?

Price's game plan was 5 drives and a hoof to Toby King, so it was executed to perfection - I didnt see anything else. Are you really telling me that Price was quite a tactician and coach, it's just the players we're unable to carry out his attacking masterstrokes?

No, if you can read you will see that I wanted Price out (at least) a year before he left the club at the end of his contract. To be honest I thought he should have gone before we won the CC, but credit to him for getting that win.

Price was limited and as I said, any attacking threat inside the oppositions 20 was often completely missing, to the extend that I often wondered what they were practising during training!

What I don’t doubt though was that the players were trying for him, they were trying to execute his miserable game plan. That’s the point.