Should he stay or should he go?

[Andywasp50]

Andy's nightmare:

Truly scary, that'll be waking me up in the wee hours now 

[Hymenoptera]

I cast my memory back not too long ago and where we were throwing the ball around and we were the kings of the offload. I can't remember seeing an offload for a couple of season at least.
You can't tackle the ball, Japan proved that, why have we lost this ability...is it because we cannot catch the ball in the first place?

[CurtisJHunter]

My Thoughts Below on Dai:-

Firstly although he has not won any titles or cups To me he is a Wasps legend for his own personal sacrifices He made when the club just missed out on relegation when he first started out.

Secondly I feel like last year he was incredible unlucky and also made some bad decisions.

Losing Danny Wilson at the start of the season was a killer blow and unfortunately we have not found his replacement since. Seeing how Wilson Cardiff team beat Gloucester in the euro cup final and how they played without amazing resources he would of been a great fit for us.

We need another Senior Coach to assist Dai in his operations and to take the pressure off him. The club has looked at many different options so far and I hope we do find someone else soon. I was disappointed we didn’t use any Coaching Consultants last year to assist the squad on a short term basis for experience.

Last year Dai was let down massively by his senior players. Daly, Hughes, Willie, Stuart, JCW all moved on for different reasons but unlike Simmo none of them played like they cared par two Hughes games at the end of the season.

We also had an incredible amount of injuries. I don’t know if this was down to the S&C or freak Injuries but Bath and Tigers seem to suffer as badly. Is this really Dais fault I don’t know?!

We lack a real leader and have done for a good while. My personal view is that we only have 1 natural leader in the squad with experience who is Brad Shields. He isn’t everyone’s cup of tea but you could easily see in the Away victory at Saints in the Prem Cup that Brad was the leader and consistently talking to the players and the referee. This should of been addressed Over the summer by Dai.

I don’t like that Robson and Young’s are captain. Especially with Robson he has enough to control and worry about along with having to be Captain.

Lima has struggled and frankly disappointing. I want him to be successful and Hope with Fekitoa he will bring the best out in him. Lima has no more excuses for not delivering. I do wonder if the team dosent play to his strengths and is this a fault of the coaching team?!

We miss a big second row to take the pressure off Joe. Since Bradley Davies left we had Matt Symonds who I feel is exactly the player we need now. Although Injury prone he was brilliant at time’s for Quins last season and has been named Co-Captain this season.

Still lack another quality 12 unless Jimmy is fit. I don’t get why Dai didn’t recruit another Second Row and 12.

What Dai has done well-

Bring in Gleason
Promote Academy players and play them
Promote Everard to senior coaching team
Signed Minzonni
SignEd Fekitoa
Signed Vaninua (Made most breaks and most carries so far in prem)
Signed JTA who will offer us more in the loose compared to JCW


My hope moving forward is to Find a new Head Coach to take the pressure off the whole Coaching team and Dai especially. Make Shields Captain and let him galvanise the squad.

Should Dai go? Not yet but with another season like last season I don’t think the board would put up with it.

 

[Silent Bob]

For me there is a world of difference between whether Dai is to blame and whether he should go.

As has been expressed already in this thread there have been a whole host of issues (avoidable and unavoidable) during his tenure that were out of his control. At times we've been sublime and at times we've been ridiculous. I would say he is not the root cause but if results continue he may be the easiest place to start if we want to change our fortunes.

To balance that I always think that any decision to replace the coach should be only made if there is genuine belief that you can at least get a replacement with the potential to do better!

Football clubs regularly ditch coaches/managers only to replace with inferior versions of what they had. It always comes down to the fundamental point that its a lot easier to change one DOR/Coach than it is to change a whole squad of players.......

Personally I hope he turns it around (again) but I'm becoming less optimistic by the week.

[westwaleswasp]

A win soon would disperse some of the gloom...