A Coach, A Coach, My Sanity For A Coach
New Coach?
By Glen Leat
June 24 2002
Once again there are rumours about a new backs coach for Bath Rugby. This time it's the Aussie Brian Smith. However, search the mass of multi-media information available to us and all you find is...zip. The way the press grapevine works silence indicates that not much is happening.
So what do we reackon then, will it be Smith
or will it be someone else? Brian Ashton
is a name which always comes to the fore
when the two words, "backs" and
"coaching" are mentioning in the
same breath as Bath Rugby. But then another
two words closely follow the first two -
"no" and "England", so
it looks like no dice there.
To help with my search for an answer I had
a quick scan of the internet to see what
is known about Brian Smith and up popped
this chap:
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He's called Brian E Smith but comes from the good old US of A and
I have to say doesn't look much like an ex-international
Aussie so I guess I must have the wrong bloke.
I then typed in the word "Back"
and came up with an interesting site called
drback.com though this was just about coping with a
bad back instead of anything to do with rugby
coaches. I then found a site which advertises a hotel
in Canada for women only called The Back Hills. This hotel particularly caters for women
who enjoy the company of women and one of
the quotes I picked up from the guestbook
is "This has been the most enjoyable weekend
I have spent in a very long time. The bed
was comfortable, the company wonderful ,
the breakfast delightful surprises and the
deer a joy!" So, what did the deer do?
Finally, with shaking hand, I managed to
drag myself away from surfing for news on
a backs coach for Bath Rugby and checked
up on the last ERE Poll (see below) to find
out if you feel we could afford to lose Catty
should he take the "King's Shilling"
and head off to Malcolm's place at Bristol.
Given that Catty has made a massive impact
on Bath over the years I was amazed that
a third of you believe we could afford to
lose him. That has to be good news because
the only way Bath will progress is to refrain
from relying on one player.
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35%For God's sake Bath, please get a backs coach
soon. Not just because I want to know who
the new man is but to help me stay sane as
otherwise I will be looking at more awlful
websites over the coming weeks in my search
for news!