“We have to manage that and understand this is the environment we are coming into. Putting a team together is not as simple as bringing in good players and good coaches, then hoping it all works.”
If that really is the Kingsholm faithful’s expectation, they have endured 27 years’ disappointment, Gloucester being the only one of four top-flight sides never relegated to have never taken the title either.
The others are Leicester, Bath and Wasps – all multiple champions, though in Bath’s case not since 1996, when the league was still in its first decade and Bath had had their phenomenal era under Jack Rowell’s coaching.
“I’ve looked into it: the club is 150 years old and it’s only that Jack Rowell block of the 80s and 90s,” said Rowell’s successor Mike Ford.
“They weren’t successful before and they weren’t afterwards.
“Whether this young team we are assembling win something next year or not, we believe we’re going to crack it sooner or later, and when that happens we intend to crack it for the year after and the year after that.”
Article source: http://www.uswitch.com/broadband/news/2014/05/_bt_sport_to_air_aviva_premiership_rugby_play_offs_this_weekend/
Humphreys handles it at Gloucester
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