Finding ‘teamship’ the key for success

Difficult not to feel for Gloucester and London Welsh.

All that excitement,
all that expectation generated during an upbeat pre-season, trumped by the
horror of 50-point thumpings in their opening fixtures against Northampton
and Exeter Chiefs respectively.



It will be hard to bounce back from that because the scale of those defeats
goes way beyond issues of tackle counts, or workrate, or line breaks, or the
problems that often occur when integrating a bunch of new players and
coaches into existing set-ups.



Concede half a century of points and outsiders start wondering about the …