backdoc,
I'd be surprised if the game plan is to muck about for the first 60 or 70 minutes to lull the opposition in to a false sense of security and then rely on our superior fitness and strength of character, not least because the coaches will be having heart attacks
More seriously, there's no doubt they are exceptionally fit and the early season has shown some great strength of character, even when we've been losing. I think they are trying too hard, as I've said before. We're getting a lot of players back from long term injury and everyone is expecting it all to just click and we get big wins, they then get frustrated when it doesn't.
As we've noted before, as there's no reserves (or whatever you want to call it) games the only way those coming back from long term injuries can get match fit is playing in the Premiership, that really doesn't help when there's 3 or 4 in that position in the team. There's also a lot of expectation on those players, most of it self made.
I'm getting more confident that we're in for a strong run in playing good rugby, once this phase is over and we've got most of the long term injured back to match fitness. For that reason, if we make the top 4 I think we're in with a good chance of winning the Premiership.