CRFC's win at Cinderford proves they must adapt to winter


By John Wilkinson, Coventry Telegraph.
October 14 2014

WINTER looms large, and as conditions begin to change, head coach Scott Morgan believes now is the time to take stock of Coventry’s position six games into the National League One season.

Cov had their first taste of what is to come last Saturday when a first-half deluge at Cinderford turned what had started out as an excellent playing surface into a greasy skid pan which made handling and ball retention something of a lottery.

And despite coming away with a 15-11 win, Morgan was first to acknowledge that Cov had not reacted as well as they might to the changing conditions.

“It was a little bit frustrating with the rain coming down the way it did and then the weather brightening up again,” said Morgan. “It would have been nice to have not had the greasy surface and to have played with a dry ball.

“But we only get that for probably three months of the season, if we are lucky, the majority is played with conditions not dissimilar to what we’ve just seen, so I think we need to have a look at things.

“We do have a Plan B, but I don’t think we execute it yet as well as we do our prime game plan.

 

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CRFC's win at Cinderford proves they must adapt to winter
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Date: 14/10/2014 08:50

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Re: CRFC's win at Cinderford proves they must adapt to winter
Posted by: zinzanh (IP Logged)
Date: 14/10/2014 18:38

Well I recommend a few mid-week sessions on Hearsall Common, if you can play there you can play anywhere!

Re: CRFC's win at Cinderford proves they must adapt to winter
Posted by: covmick1/Michael Carter (IP Logged)
Date: 14/10/2014 19:44

Well this season teams in ND1 could be playing in A mud bath one week then next week on plastic !!

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Re: CRFC's win at Cinderford proves they must adapt to winter
Posted by: Laugh Out Loud (Dave Roach) (IP Logged)
Date: 14/10/2014 21:19

Mick, why would they play on a plastic bath? [:wor kid:]

Re: CRFC's win at Cinderford proves they must adapt to winter
Posted by: covkid53 (IP Logged)
Date: 14/10/2014 21:23

Win well, pretty, ugly, expansive, whatever .... Just win or we're going nowhere.

Re: CRFC's win at Cinderford proves they must adapt to winter
Posted by: Nige H (IP Logged)
Date: 14/10/2014 23:08

“We do have a Plan B, but I don’t think we execute it yet as well as we do our prime game plan." ....
Omg, 'not as good as our prime game plan'!!?!... Hasn't not following the game plan been one of the consistently quoted problems of this and last season?! So if plan b, is worse than plan a, I'm scared, very scared!!! ;-)

Re: CRFC's win at Cinderford proves they must adapt to winter
Posted by: titchywinger (IP Logged)
Date: 14/10/2014 23:48

But did we stick with plan A or go to plan B? Either way we won.

Re: CRFC's win at Cinderford proves they must adapt to winter
Posted by: Nige H (IP Logged)
Date: 15/10/2014 08:03

Very true titchy, we did we. Anyhow I think Scott is talking more in general rather than specifically about the cinderford game.

Re: CRFC's win at Cinderford proves they must adapt to winter
Posted by: Just Rugby (IP Logged)
Date: 16/10/2014 12:55

I saw a team practicing on Hersall common on Tuesday in Cov away kit.....was that the winter training?

Re: CRFC's win at Cinderford proves they must adapt to winter
Posted by: Kimbo (IP Logged)
Date: 16/10/2014 15:38

If so, they have my sympathies. I played footy there once, and that was quite enough.

Re: CRFC's win at Cinderford proves they must adapt to winter
Posted by: zinzanh (IP Logged)
Date: 16/10/2014 17:39

I nearly drowned at the bottom of a ruck there.

Re: CRFC's win at Cinderford proves they must adapt to winter
Posted by: OldNick (IP Logged)
Date: 16/10/2014 19:48

Tonight they were training on the green and pleasant land of Broad Street.

Re: CRFC's win at Cinderford proves they must adapt to winter
Posted by: Kimbo (IP Logged)
Date: 17/10/2014 12:17

Broad Street was never green nor pleasant when I were a lad..

Re: CRFC's win at Cinderford proves they must adapt to winter
Posted by: Cliff Bennett (IP Logged)
Date: 17/10/2014 15:41

But that was a awfully long time ago.

Re: CRFC's win at Cinderford proves they must adapt to winter
Posted by: OldNick (IP Logged)
Date: 17/10/2014 19:28

I suspect they played at Brosf Street back then.

Re: CRFC's win at Cinderford proves they must adapt to winter
Posted by: Cliff Bennett (IP Logged)
Date: 17/10/2014 20:00

Nah, I believe it was a ploughed farm field back then, and the tenant farmers paid tithes.

Re: CRFC's win at Cinderford proves they must adapt to winter
Posted by: Kimbo (IP Logged)
Date: 17/10/2014 20:32

Not even you would be old enough to remember when Broad Street was a ploughed field.

Re: CRFC's win at Cinderford proves they must adapt to winter
Posted by: Tip (JJ Teeling) (IP Logged)
Date: 18/10/2014 18:11

What when we went t'Bell Green fur afters?

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