Quote: Highlander "I usually read the first as "our first team will struggle so we're aiming for 11th", the second as "we're going to lose games until the summer then I hope we'll run rings round teams" and the third as "we've an underpowered pack". Would that be fair?'"
Certainly that is how it has turned out in the past, and the fear it that history repeats.
The hope is that Smith’s blend is different... somehow.
I feel obliged not to talk us down before our season kicks off, but you can’t help but worry based what has happened when we’ve tried similar previously. A major mitigating factor this time - there was no feasible alternative.