There are some interesting excuses from coaches as to why there are such variations in results in the Premiership week by week.
It would appear that the consensus of opinion is that it is down to mental complacency. It seems that if the team win easily one week the players expect that the same will happen again even if they are playing different opposition.

For the teams that lose, it easy to see why their performance improves the following week as they are full time professionals and if they keep losing games they could lose their jobs, which you would expect to generally focus the mind a...