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Interestingly my recollection is that a large part of the begone Fagan rhetoric was centred around his reluctance to make changes to the team or its tactics
When we got ACL'd and had to make changes to the playing group there was improvement and the differing elements allowed for increased flexibility in tactics...
Would there have been those changes anyway ... hard to say
Would the bringing in of extra voices in Cochin and Dew have made the same changes ...we will never know.
What we do know is that where we were was unacceptable without knowing precisely why we were there (was definitely a multivariate equation not a simple single variable).
What we do know is that we had a good group ready to step up and that takes someone in the whole squad and organisation to support.
What we also know is that while we started slow we are finishing strongly and isn't that the ideal way to play out the season?
Fagan copped it because things were bad and the buck stops with him ... how much tolerance people were prepared to give him certainly varied but at least we were all united in wanting our Lions to roar all through to September ... even briztoon![]()
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The problem is he wasn't playing the youth as he didn't trust them to do the job. Alas, he finally played them and look what happens.