No word from Andoni Iraola … but no matter! Ben Fisher was at Dean Court tonight and his report has landed. Here it is. Thanks for reading this MBM.
A grim-faced Luke Williams speaks to S4C. “It was horrible … a horrible night for us … I apologised to the players because I tried to set the team up to give a problem to the opposition … it was a cup game, we had to find a way to win … but I got the balance wrong, too many players in advanced positions, and in the turnover there weren’t enough bodies to stem the flow … in the second half we had more bodies back … we tried to limit the damage … the scoreline was too heavy …they were very nervous but I don’t want to single anybody out or talk too much about individual errors … we made easy openings by making mistakes, and that was very disappointing … but I needed to help the team quicker and find a way to give them more bodies behind the ball to defend … we have to go to training and try to work out how we’ll set up for the next game … we did learn some things tonight … Leicester is not going to be so much different as they’re an outstanding group as well … we have to come up with a gameplan and try to convince the players … I will take some responsibility to share with them … now I need to try to find the best way for them to be competitive … we would do well to strengthen the squad for sure.”
