{"id":75177,"date":"2014-10-29T10:08:27","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T09:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=75177"},"modified":"2014-10-29T11:26:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T10:26:32","slug":"ulster-paying-price-making-mess-coaching-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/ulster-paying-price-making-mess-coaching-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Quinlan……. Ulster paying the price for making a mess of its coaching situation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alan Quinlan: Players perform best when there is stability rather than constant chopping:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I thought Ulster would be better than this. It was arguable going into the start of the European season that they were actually the best placed Irish team to do well.
\nThey had a few injuries but nothing like what Leinster have had to contend with. They have a tough enough group but you wouldn\u2019t say it\u2019s significantly tougher than Munster\u2019s surely. But here they are, not even into November yet, and they\u2019re as good as gone from the tournament.
\nAgainst Glasgow in the Pro-12 the week before the Leicester game, they looked full of confidence. They looked sharp and sure of themselves, like a team who knew what they were about and what they wanted to do.
\nBut in the two Champions Cup games so far, they\u2019ve been making the sort of mistakes that get made by teams who are low on ideas.
\nAgainst Leicester in the first game, they had the same sort of non-performance in the first half as Munster and Leinster had that weekend. The difference was that they left themselves too much to do whereas the other pair got out of the jam.
\nThey worked out what was needed and turned the game their way. When the pressure came on, they didn\u2019t really look like they knew what they were trying to do.
\nIt looks to me like somewhere along the way, Ulster have taken their eye off the ball when it comes to the playing side of things. You walk into Ravenhill now and it\u2019s a better stadium to what it was even just five years ago.
\nYou talk to people in the crowd and there\u2019s no doubt they\u2019ve spread the word further out into other parts of the province and have got new supporters and are growing the game. These are all good, worthwhile things for them to be doing.
\nBut through all that time, Ulster have been going through coaches like an English soccer club. Brian McLaughlin, Mark Anscombe, Neil Doak, Les Kiss. By this time next year, they will have had four different head coaches in just over three years<\/p>\n

I know the official name for Kiss\u2019s job next year is Director of Rugby but in reality he is going to be a hands-on coach, the man the players have to impress above all others.
\nThis has all been handled so badly. It goes right back to when they got rid of McLaughlin at the end of 2012, a season in which he took them to the Heineken Cup final……………. for the full article which absolutely is 100% spot on go to :- http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/sport\/rugby\/ulster-paying-the-price-for-making-a-mess-of-its-coaching-situation-1.1979769<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alan Quinlan: Players perform best when there is stability rather than constant chopping: “I thought Ulster would be better than this. It was arguable going into the start of the European season that they were actually the best placed Irish team to do well. They had a few injuries but nothing like what Leinster have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5219,5770,15210,6338,15211,1997],"class_list":["post-75177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ulster-rugby","tag-coaching","tag-for","tag-paying","tag-price","tag-situation","tag-ulster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75177"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75188,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75177\/revisions\/75188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}