Netball
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The article in the Herald today with the Grant quotes was pretty telling, she pretty much said ‘the coach is shit, no one rates her & she has to go’ without actually saying it.
Good on her.
If a full scale player revolt is what it takes so be it. Southby should go quietly and save everyone the trouble
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I can't understand how someone could think that the skills required to do well in an interview would be the same as the skills required to do well as a netball coach. You can say that for a lot of jobs but few are so high profile.
I thought we had already learned that lesson with Mitchell and Hammett.
That article used Hansen and Hesson as equivalent examples but with success. Both of them went through a lot of pain but were good enough to come through eventually. Hansen earned his stripes keeping Wales down while Hesson had the luxury of everyone being used to failure from NZC. -
Stuart Lancaster is probably another good example of elevating a coach of this 'type' too early.
Without the success experience to support their ways, player confidence and buy in is eroded quickly.
Lancaster is now building back into being a very good coach the traditional way. -
Southby quits. Sounds like effective immediately.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/netball/105651613/janine-southby-resigns-as-silver-ferns-coach
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Huzzah!
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Worse NZ international coach ever.
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The key is in the we!! oh, hold on. Wrong sport, wrong coach!
Gets some kudos from me for stepping down, especially if there was any truth to NZ Netball not being able to ditch her and afford the payout. If the payout story is hot air then she's just jumped before being fired.
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http://www.netballnz.co.nz/news/detail/netball-new-zealand-announces-review-findings
Here's the link to the summary of the review.
It's only four pages and quite interesting - especially the paragraph (6) describing the culture Southby tried to implement, which sounds good in theory; the broader observations about high performance culture; and what NNZ proposes to do to address the shortcomings.
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@chris-b that reads like quite a sanitised summary. Certainly not much sniff of a player v coach divide, aside from the points about a player-centric focus not working for a largely junior squad. But probably not much value in explicitly stating that when you can read between the lines.
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@paekakboyz They do note that the group "fractured" and paras 8 & 10 are fairly to the point in that regard.
Language in these sorts of reviews are usually pretty dispassionate and usually avoids unconstructive personal criticism, so it's not really surprising.
I guess, the point is to work out what went wrong and how to fix it rather than hanging people (Southby) out to dry.
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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12093183
Sounds like the team wanted stronger leadership and direction from the coach
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Just as well Southby realised the gig was up, even if it took a while... Another classic "interviewed well" gone wrong - not a phenomenon unique to sports!
Reading the article, I get the impression that while Southby wasn't ready yet, the Board and players need to take a long, hard look at themselves.
This provides some commentary on the report, but to me, the most telling quote from the report I came across is "Netball in New Zealand continues to struggle to embrace a true high performance culture - the no compromises, no shortcuts philosophy so much a part of many elite sports in not yet ingrained deeply enough within netball in New Zealand". To make matters worse, the chair from 2008 said that a review back then identified a similar issue.
Might be time for more players to stop making excuses and step up.
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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12093879
So the coach was doing a great job, allowing the players to lead, but the assistant acknowledges they knew the playing group lacked experience..... 🤔 so why then are we here? 🙄
