Ismael: “It has been very important to have a full week. The weather has been great and very warm which means you can stay longer on the pitch, explain longer to the players. There has been unbelievable quality + intensity in training. It was the right moment to have the break" From Twitter. Jesus. He's been explaining longer to them - implying he hadn't introduced the concept to them before. Today should be interesting!
Val will have set off thinking that his system needed to be good enough to get us to 50 point safety. Did it ever, but it got us there so quickly that he'd have been a fool to start changing anything about it when it afforded us a look at the playoffs. He's probably stuck with his press/hoof/play in their half strategy for the season, whether he fancied modifying it or not. We have a ton of room to improve things, to make us even better, based upon his strategy which obviously works
