Saturday 12 December 2009

Another weekend to put things right?

The women's squad are ensconced in a training camp this weekend.Hopefully they will be working on some of the aspects that saw them lose to a Welsh side by 56-7.
Obviously the squad were out of season and were missing some of the senior players, however we have heard that there was a negative feeling within the squad and they were expecting to be beaten. That is something we are sure that Jonas and his experienced team will address. We also understand that although the Welsh were preparing for the six nations, they included some debutantes within their side, so did not field their full team. Sweden, have to be able to have players that are good enough to replace the percieved 'stars' and that at the moment appears to be a problem, they don't have sufficient quality in depth and if 2 or 3 players are missing, they struggle. Is this a fault of the system, not enough emphasis on teaching technique at club level? we would suggest it is. Until that is rectified, the problem will remain. If you consider that the top 3/4 players are at a different level, probably because they have at sometime played for clubs abroad, it would suggest that the level of skill coaching in Sweden is not good enough. As a consequence the senior squads struggle.
Anyway, we hope that Jonas can go some way to rectifying this with his camps and that we see an improvement next time out.

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