Pat Lam's biggest challenge is lack of fitness player

By
Challenge Cup quarter finals: And he knows that he can't afford both ways. Pat Lam and Connacht have to make a big decision to face Grenoble

All provinces, apart from Connacht, have a rest this weekend. There is one weekend break in PR 12 for European competitions. The Connachtians are the only team from this country who are still in these competitions, although they are in the junior end, in the Challenge Cup.

Stade des Alpes in Grenoble in south-east France are heading this Saturday to take on an eighth place on the Top 14 table. Not only that, but the French will have a lot of knowledge of Western men. from Jackman, Irish, who has been a coach with them since 2012.

Another Irish coach, Mick Prendergast, from Limerick. Even if these two people could not share enough information about the Connacht style, Paul O'Connell certainly gave them a few tips when he gave them a training session during Easter.

Pat Lam may not have information either. Shane O´Leary, a player on the Connacht panel, spent a half-goal and midfield player, playing season with Grenoble. He played with them in the Challenge Cup themselves.

Pat Lam's biggest challenge is lack of fitness players. Fourteen were on the list of players who were injured last weekend as they approached Ulster. A few players may be able to get back from that long list but it is unlikely that they will have enough, especially the Munster players on the match against Munster, a game which will be played for a week.

The management of the panel is the biggest challenge facing Phat Lam this week, he knows he can't afford to meet. He has to make a big decision. Will he send the strongest team he can to France to play in a difficult contest for Connacht to win all of the game, even if they have Grenoble this Saturday? Or, will he give his senior players a rest to get the Munsters ready? If they win in this game, they will have a great chance to play at home in the Pro12 semi-finals.

I know well what I decided to do! But I'm not Pat Lam and it is worth remembering that he did not make any bad decisions in his management of Connacht.


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The secret of the beauty of your skin is in the dream

By
Image
"The Sleeping Beauty" was not beautiful for free. The long sleep to which she was subjected may have been the key to her beauty. Is seriously! The secret to maintaining beauty and having a youthful appearance is to rest well. Your skin and your health in general, benefit when you sleep. Sleeping is vital to have good health, it is through the hours of sleep that the body is renewed. Not sleeping or suffering from insomnia is a serious health account: it affects your immune system (defense), increases blood pressure and even causes you to gain weight. To make matters worse, not sleeping steals your skin years. Therefore, if you are one of the people who have spent a lot of money on creams and sophisticated treatments to maintain a youthful skin, I tell you that the solution to recover the beauty of your skin is, precisely, to sleep as necessary. A recent study published in the British Medical Journal found that lack of sleep shows on the face and makes it look less attr...
Read more

4 models that strive to make fashion more inclusive

By
Image
Fashion has had diversity problems for a long time. While the industry is becoming more global, with a greater focus on international markets, color models still represent a small percentage of the total that appears in campaigns, editorials and on the catwalk. The latest diversity report from The Fashion Spot revealed that 38.8% of the models chosen to parade in New York, Milan and Paris were not white. Meanwhile, diversity in its other forms -including the participation of older models, large sizes, transgender and non-binary gender, as well as those with manifest functional diversity- remains uncommon. The models of large sizes represented a 0.69% that paraded on the catwalk last season, while only 0.77% of the models were transgender or non-binary gender. Although there have been some movements towards inclusion over the past few years (the autumn / winter 2015 catwalks, for example, were 80 percent white) there is still much to be done. Next, we asked four regulars on the catw...
Read more

European Semi-Finals and no indication of Gael

By
Image
The Irish Provinces may be ashamed of resting again this weekend. The only team that won the quarter finals were the Connaughtmen, but those who didn't succeed Grenoble a fortnight ago were very unfortunate. This means that the senior competition, Corn na Churadh, is left under the staff of England and France. There are three English teams in the semi-finals. Saracens, a team who only lost in the 2014 final, will be playing in town against Wasps, another London team, who won the cup in 2004 and 2007 on Saturday. On Sunday, Leicesters Tigers, who won it in 2001 and 2002 against France Racing 92, will not yet achieve this award. The French may expect the former All Black and the best semi-final in the world, Dan Carter to have a positive impact on the outcome of this conflict. It may have been a hopeful hope for the Irish that no Scottish or Welsh team were successful in winning this stage of the competition. I am not sure that we are comforted to be among the losers but we are...
Read more