CHAT WITH THE COACH

Is it still a scrum when I'm the only reporter around?

With Chad Mercier.

RH: What did you think of the game last night?

CM: I thought a little bit of a slow start in some areas. You can tell it's some guys' first game of the year. We knew going in with young guys we were going to have a lot of work ahead of us and you know I thought we seen some good things and some things we need to work on. We've had only one practice so far and that's probably been the biggest detriment of them all. Getting into game shape and just getting back to doing the little things but hey, it's early. We created enough chances tonight and we've got to build off that and we've got two more here to get fine tuned.

RH: With the young lineup and only a week ago to the regular season do you have enough time to get that work done?

CM: We are tight you know but it's going to be a day to day thing. That's one reason why you look at our schedule starting off with I think we've got something like 3 games in 12 nights. It's pretty light to start off with Robb and that was by design because we knew that we had to get some exhibition games in in a short about time and we are going to be limited in our practice time. Like I said we've had one practice to get some things in and we've seen some of those things on Thursday pay dividends for us and it's just a matter of rounding everything into shape. For some guys it's brand new and for other guys it's a refresher and it takes some time and some patients but overall we'll address some of the things we need to and look for improvement again heading into the game tonight.

RH: What kind of lineup should the hometown fans expect to see tonight?

CM: Well we are going to make a few changes but we've got to get some of our older guys in here and get them going a little bit. Enough standing around. I think we've seen what we needed to see with regards to evaluation and I think these next two games are going to be about getting our game to where we need it.