Proof of the pudding is in the results on the field.
Quins' recruitment has hardly been stunning this summer and the existing galacticos have been an uncoordinated mess for the last three seasons.
Let's hope the newly appointed DoR/Head Whatever does not fall into the same cliché ridden build-up - top 6 is a minimum but it takes 3 years to gel.
We will know by the end of November whether there is any lead in the pencil.
Not entirely sure what point you’re making.
There hasn’t been any recruitment, it was done and dusted before we got a new boss. There isn’t any business to be done.
Yes we’ve been poor for three seasons, that’s specifically why we’ve got a new boss.
Do you mean you don’t want anyone to say top 6 is a minimum? Me too, we’re rebuilding the side, don’t care where we finish other than last as long as it looks like we’re changing the long-standing malaise. I’d be amazed if Gustard sets a position finish target,
And much as I’m sure again no one will say it at Quins, enough coaches/former players etc have said that it takes 3 years to change a squad these days that I’m sure it’s probably right. Either way we don’t actually know if we have a good squad or not because we’ve played such terrible rugby. Certainly we need to start finding replacements for our aging England contingent.
So yes, we’ll see once they actually start playing - but I’m still not sure what you’re expecting? Or indeed what you think others are expecting? No one appears to have predicted a sudden challenge for the title.