With regards to the increase in Prem teams, an even number always makes much more logical & fair sense and 14 teams would get my vote over 13. Sure it means some jiggling with fixtures, but it’s doable.
I am very much anti ring fencing but understood/understand the decision with no relegation for 21 + 22 seasons. Extending to 24 is not ideal, but I can see the logic in that and “starting afresh” etc, but this HAS to include Relegation/Promotion for the integrity of the league/competition in my humble opinion. Again, I know it would be logistically awkward, but I’ve always personally felt a one game, showpiece showdown, of PL bottom vs Champs Champs to decide final place in Prem for following season is an option ensuring league integrity. Or just a straight swap. Whatever, but it HAS to be open for another ‘Potential Exeter’ to happen.
Not yet they won’t but it won’t have gone unnoticed by HQ the impact he has made/continues to make at WR.
For what it’s worth,
1/I don’t think they would want to offer the job to SB at this moment in time IF they were to sack EJ, however, post ‘23 RWC and that could quite conceivably be an entirely different question/scenario.
2/Also, i get the feeling that SB would turn it down if asked currently tbh. He strikes me as being a man of honour, and integrity, who leads by example and I feel that he wants to be further along on his Tigers “journey” before being judged +/or contemplating “the big one”.
Post RWC ‘23, if the improvements seen so far continue and Tigers are sniffing around at the “top table” again.. THAT is when I will be nervously holding my breath and tactically enhancing my calls for Rob Baxter as “the chosen one”.😁
Borthwick has come to Leicester to do a job, he has made a promising start but has won nothing yet. In my opinion he has a duty to stay with us until he has at least taken us much further down the road to recovery. We may lose him to England eventually but only after he has proven himself as coaching winner.
With regards to the increase in Prem teams, an even number always makes much more logical & fair sense and 14 teams would get my vote over 13. Sure it means some jiggling with fixtures, but it’s doable.
I am very much anti ring fencing but understood/understand the decision with no relegation for 21 + 22 seasons. Extending to 24 is not ideal, but I can see the logic in that and “starting afresh” etc, but this HAS to include Relegation/Promotion for the integrity of the league/competition in my humble opinion. Again, I know it would be logistically awkward, but I’ve always personally felt a one game, showpiece showdown, of PL bottom vs Champs Champs to decide final place in Prem for following season is an option ensuring league integrity. Or just a straight swap. Whatever, but it HAS to be open for another ‘Potential Exeter’ to happen.
Not yet they won’t but it won’t have gone unnoticed by HQ the impact he has made/continues to make at WR.
For what it’s worth,
1/I don’t think they would want to offer the job to SB at this moment in time IF they were to sack EJ, however, post ‘23 RWC and that could quite conceivably be an entirely different question/scenario.
2/Also, i get the feeling that SB would turn it down if asked currently tbh. He strikes me as being a man of honour, and integrity, who leads by example and I feel that he wants to be further along on his Tigers “journey” before being judged +/or contemplating “the big one”.
Post RWC ‘23, if the improvements seen so far continue and Tigers are sniffing around at the “top table” again.. THAT is when I will be nervously holding my breath and tactically enhancing my calls for Rob Baxter as “the chosen one”.😁
Borthwick has come to Leicester to do a job, he has made a promising start but has won nothing yet. In my opinion he has a duty to stay with us until he has at least taken us much further down the road to recovery. We may lose him to England eventually but only after he has proven himself as coaching winner.
Tim Cocker has done a good piece on ringfencing on Eggchasers on YouTube.
Worth a watch/listen