Laurie Fisher
Laurie Fisher
Laurie Fisher born in Canberra and is currently the Gloucester Rugby head coach...
absolutely bit contest football game style tackle ugly
It's a bit of an ugly game this year, all round. The open, free-flowing, try-for-try game is gone. The tackle contest is now intense. It's absolutely gripping football but it's a different style of play.
chance gene matt playing pressure
We just want to give Matt the chance to feel comfortable at 12 (inside centre) and not put the pressure on him that comes with playing at 10. Gene Fairbanks will be our back-up five-eighth, not Matt.
character four good tremendous tries
We scored four tries and we haven't scored four tries this year, so there's a lot of good things to come out of it. I thought we showed tremendous character out there.
best case four six
Best case it's a seven-10 day injury. At worst, it's four to six weeks.
everybody good guess host performance players rather shoes
I think everybody will be primed for a good performance. And I guess I'd rather have experienced players who've been there and done that than a whole host of players who haven't. I'd rather be in our shoes than their shoes.
fantastic future player rugby
Julian is a fantastic young player with a long future as a professional rugby player, hopefully, at the Brumbies.
cent court decision discussed fairly given might number per purely push strong
We haven't given up, and I only know what I've read in all the papers, which is a fairly strong push that he's over there, but he hasn't told us that yet and I don't know that he's 100 per cent made up his mind. But indications are that he might be leaving. We discussed it with him on a number of occasions, there's nothing to add. The decision is purely in his court now.
certainly football good super
Certainly at this stage, all he has to do is just play the appropriate football during the Super 14 and I'll certainly back him to have a very good (competition).
ball chance last natural plenty running work year
If they play like they did last year we will have plenty of ball to work with, so it will give us a chance to play our natural running game.
market pay price whatever worth
I don't know what the market price is mate, but he's worth whatever you pay for him.
bit maybe
Maybe they can get a little bit ill-disciplined so we'll try and play down their end of the park.
bit both extra given opportunity physically players strength work
The players are fresher both physically and mentally, but it's also given us an opportunity to do a bit of extra work on our conditioning and strength this week.
fit players playing
We would be playing players who are fit to play so if he was fit to play, he'd play.
both lose next sides trying
Both sides were trying desperately not to lose (last year) but I think we'll see something dramatically different next weekend.