We caught up with Coach Dawe after the Sharks vs Wasps match, we imagined the win would have taken some of the animosity away from the situation, but it quickly became apparent that the two coaches had exchanged further words after the final klaxon. As we talked to Dawe he was enjoying a glass of wine in celebration of what he termed his teams, ‘destruction of Wasps’. Fase the Wasps coach had by this time declined the invitation of an after match beverage reportedly muttering something about being ill and having to catch the train home!
It was obvious that Dawe was savouring the victory –
‘The boys did themselves proud, after all the bad blood and the accusations of dirty play we just showed them how to play. You want to do the rough stuff, we can do that too but we prefer to play in style. The weather hampered us against Stad, but this week we showed the sort of open play rugby we are capable of.’
When asked what he made of the deliberate high tackles that were going in Dawe shrugged them off, ‘Refs have a hard time, that first Wasps ‘assault’, to use the words bandied around by Fase last match, was certainly at least a yellow card, the big one in the second half, well to be honest I was busy watching Hodgson’s golden feet – I’ll look at the video and see if we should make a formal complaint, I prefer however to work it out on the pitch the next time we play them!’
On his teams performance he had this to say, ‘Lamont is a quality player, he’s shown his pace in the last few matches now. Chabal, well what can I say, give him the ball he’ll head for that line. Magnus Lund caused Stad some worries last match and this match I think he was basically a cut above the Wasps players. Hodgson was having trouble with his boots in the first half, I’ll be talking to the maker very shortly!! All in all the game was, well, MEN & BOYS really although I am waiting for the usual lame excuses about illness BLAH BLAH, can’t see him lasting much longer than the Stad match to be honest, the fans will not stand for it!!’
Well as subtle as ever we left the outspoken coach to his ‘wine’ … any reply from Fase? Well at the moment their seems to be an official ‘no comment’ from him and the Saracens coach McTague … the pressure is mounting!
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