{"id":362368,"date":"2025-12-21T10:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T10:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/362368\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T10:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T10:50:07","slug":"danny-care-blasts-helpless-harlequins-as-he-reveals-shocking-worst-in-the-league-stat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/362368\/","title":{"rendered":"Danny Care blasts &#8216;helpless&#8217; Harlequins as he reveals shocking &#8216;worst in the league&#8217; stat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harlequins legend Danny Care has given a frank assessment of his former club after their devastating 40-14 loss to Bristol Bears at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking as part of the TNT punditry team, Care was very honest about the issues that plagued the hosts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were second-best in every single aspect of the game,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetrugby.com\/tag\/danny-care\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Care<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you boil the whole game of rugby union down, it comes down to physicality, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetrugby.com\/team\/harlequins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Quins<\/a> were the least physical side out there, both sides of the ball.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn attack, they looked a little bit helpless, they didn\u2019t seem to hit the weak shoulders, they were running straight into people; we didn\u2019t see the Quins style, the Quins flair, and in defence, they were so soft, they just looked soft tonight, which is a worrying thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey didn\u2019t really fire a shot. It took 47 phases in the red zone for them to score their first try. Their red-zone efficiency was the worst in the league before that game. I would hate to see the stat on that now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is very unforgiving, rugby. They have to get back on the horse, and they have got to get back on the horse very quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Want more from Planet Rugby? 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Unlike pundits in the past, Care was not afraid to highlight the issues in his former club\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is why he is the Mightyest Quin,\u201d one fan said. \u201cHe\u2019s absolutely right and the coaches have all the clay they need to make something great and have f****** it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another added: \u201cHim and scaz work well together. Refreshing to have two newly retired players doing comms. Both very articulate and insightful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This damning loss leaves Harlequins floundering near the bottom of the Prem table with 10 points, above just Gloucester, who are on eight and Newcastle Red Bulls, who remain rooted to the bottom, winless and pointless.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetrugby.com\/news\/munster-player-ratings-v-ospreys-form-of-his-life-centre-leads-by-example-and-newcomer-shows-enviable-work-rate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Munster player ratings v Ospreys: \u2018Form of his life\u2019 centre \u2018leads by example\u2019 and newcomer shows \u2018enviable\u2019 work rate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harlequins legend Danny Care has given a frank assessment of his former club after their devastating 40-14 loss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,197318,39991,818,44,20248,760,85],"class_list":["post-362368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-danny-care","tag-harlequins","tag-home-page","tag-news","tag-premiership","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}