ChrisUppy wrote:Rob Howley looks like an early frontrunner for the Munster attack job after interviewing: https://www.the42.ie/wales-attack-howle ... 3-May2019/
I'd have suspicions of his calibre to be honest. He'll certainly bring a lot of experience to a coaching ticket lacking in it but I've heard Welsh fans complain about him for years, especially during his poor stint as head coach when Gatland was on Lions duty. Wales also joint lowest try scorers in this years 6 nations despite the slam.
Also Sean O'Brien had this to say about his to say about the Lion's attack under Howley:
“If we had a little more structure during the weeks and more of an attack game plan driven [from] way earlier in the tour we could have won 3-0.”
The British and Irish Lions squad return home
The 30-year-old Ireland international paid particular attention to Howley’s role as attack coach, and claimed that much of the Lions’ success was down to the two midfield options of Johnny Sexton and Owen Farrell, rather than the philosophy that the Wales coach tried to imprint.
“The coaches have a lot to answer for in terms of our attack. Johnny [Sexton] and Faz [Farrell] were the ones running our attack shape,” O’Brien added.
“If I was being critical of any coach it would be the fact that Rob [Howley] struggled with the group in terms of trying to get stuff across.
“Johnny and Owen drove everything in the second [Test] week, for instance, in our attack and had a better plan in place. So I don’t know if it was that people were not buying into what he [Howley] was about. That’s the hard thing about a Lions tour as well, getting everyone to listen to a coach that was probably set in his ways.
“Whether I am there or not in four years is a different story. Coaching-wise they need to make sure they have the best coaches in the best positions.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/rug ... 58811.html
Wales are good going forward when they're up against some teams. They've a good attacking structure and score plenty of good tries.
I'd say Gatland likes to keep things tight so in that case wouldn't allow free flowing rugby. Against England he talked about keeping it tight and attacking the fringes of the England defence. Because of that I'm sure Welsh fans blame Howley but they also wanted to get rid of Gatland last year and are already complaining about Pivac.
I wouldn't take too much notice of SOB either. That's one man's opinion. I remember how split people were in Munster over Rob Penney. Not many could understand the method behind the madness of locks on the wing.
So I would welcome Howley. He comes with an impressive CV and at worst would be average. Average is a big improvement on the current state of the Munster attack.
If there's an experienced, quality kiwi coming then great!
It's probably for the best that Munsters attack is so currently bad because if it was mediocre then there would be nothing done about it.
