Hansen
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Oh and by the way, this post 2015 team just isn't a patch on the previous side stacked with all-time greats. No-one could have done any better with the cattle available. Losing convincingly to a very good England side shouldn't be a major surprise to anyone given the patchy form shown throughout the 2016-19 era and the lesser standard of players available in general.
Given that we lost the best ever centre pairing, the GOAT, and two other all time greats after 2015, the level of expectation in terms of dominance was unfounded. I think it is time for a complete change now in AB management, but I will always rate Hansen - He's still one of the classiest people around in the way he thinks about the good of the game at a world level and also the way he has represented the ABs during some very major disruptive events.
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Hansen firing up in the presser, very unfairly, in response to a question about the lack of fire from the All Blacks. He responds to the next question by talking about 'how desperate the other team was' but clearly we weren't very desperate; we clearly didn't have a plan to break them down; and we were easily the 2nd best team out there. WTF?
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Lets face it, win or lose, this was the end of one of the greatest AB eras. I've got a lot of good memories of the Henry-Hansen era, and some of the finest games played by AB sides with some of the greatest ABs.
I'm not sure we'll ever see its like again.
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@gt12 That was pathetic, especially the "if you want to go outside I'll give you a rugby education" part. Is he going to fight him for merely asking if "the all blacks turned up with the right mindset?"
The NZ press usually asks "Steve, were the ABs 10/10 or 11/10 tonight. Why are they so good?"
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Hansen firing up in the presser, very unfairly, in response to a question about the lack of fire from the All Blacks. He responds to the next question by talking about 'how desperate the other team was' but clearly we weren't very desperate; we clearly didn't have a plan to break them down; and we were easily the 2nd best team out there. WTF?
To add to this, he talks about how proud he is because we played well. Really??? Really????? Really??????? That's his honest assessment? I understand that he's proud of the players, but he can't be proud of that performance, surely?
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@gt12 That was pathetic, especially the "if you want to go outside I'll give you a rugby education" part. Is he going to fight him for merely asking if "the all blacks turned up with the right mindset?"
The NZ press usually asks "Steve, were the ABs 10/10 or 11/10 tonight. Why are they so good?"
What I find funny about that is that he had just said 'put your big boy pants on'. So do that. Own up to the fact that your team just wasn't fucking good enough. It doesn't mean that we don't love them (especially Sam Cane! Gave away three, but I still love you) but it does mean that you're honest about a shit performance. It can't only be that England were simply always better, or we should fucking give up.
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And here I was thinking it was all Fox’s fault.
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@ACT-Crusader said in Hansen:
And here I was thinking it was all Fox’s fault.
Spent half the World Cup in New Zealand looking after his businesses. Time for him to go too.
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Well lets see I am picking a Foster/Brown scenario
A big tell will be how the NZRU structure the process. I've heard Brown rumoured for both a Foster and Robertson coaching tilt.
Hopefully there is clarity soon enough for Rennie to have a go too.
I don't think Rennie is in the mix the Rumour is he's virtually signed for the Wallabies.
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Nigel Yelden said this week that Joseph's negotiations for a Japanese contract extension have stalled, so he could be in the mix for the Australian coaching team. He also said that Joseph is a good negotiator, and he may just be playing for a better Japanese contract.
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Well lets see I am picking a Foster/Brown scenario
A big tell will be how the NZRU structure the process. I've heard Brown rumoured for both a Foster and Robertson coaching tilt.
Hopefully there is clarity soon enough for Rennie to have a go too.
I don't think Rennie is in the mix the Rumour is he's virtually signed for the Wallabies.
Hopefully he has an out clause. If he's in a TWM of him, Jospeh and Razor (with Brown as technical advisor) then we have an Islander fulla, a Maori fulla, and a Pakeha fulla ... a perfectly balanced coaching trio.
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Well lets see I am picking a Foster/Brown scenario
A big tell will be how the NZRU structure the process. I've heard Brown rumoured for both a Foster and Robertson coaching tilt.
Hopefully there is clarity soon enough for Rennie to have a go too.
I don't think Rennie is in the mix the Rumour is he's virtually signed for the Wallabies.
Hopefully he has an out clause. If he's in a TWM of him, Jospeh and Razor (with Brown as technical advisor) then we have an Islander fulla, a Maori fulla, and a Pakeha fulla ... a perfectly balanced coaching trio.
Big Jim, The Claw and Razor. Sounds more like a pirate ship than TWM.
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@Kruse Henry's team. Wayne Smith's brains.
Henry's team, 4 years later?
Sure, I think Henry was a legend, and Hansen inherited a pretty sweet deal. But he also kept it humming along fairly sweetly... enough to keep me happy for 7 years, 357 days at least.
If he banged your sister, and you walked in on the pearl necklace part of it.... I'll apologise on his behalf. Considering his size... yeah, that couldn't have been a pleasant sight. -
@Kruse Henry's team. Wayne Smith's brains.
Henry's team, 4 years later?
Sure, I think Henry was a legend, and Hansen inherited a pretty sweet deal. But he also kept it humming along fairly sweetly... enough to keep me happy for 7 years, 357 days at least.
If he banged your sister, and you walked in on the pearl necklace part of it.... I'll apologise on his behalf. Considering his size... yeah, that couldn't have been a pleasant sight.Nothing like a bit of inside knowledge eh?
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@reprobate said in Hansen:
Fuck off aucklanders. Rieko had been average and the wings were hardly the problems. Not picking Cane was shit. Beauden played shit. Subbing goodhue was shit. Plenty of dumb stuff, but not crusaders bias.
Yep, and the worst AB tonight was J Barrett, not Bridge or Reece.
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Never was a big fan of their music TBH.
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@reprobate said in Hansen:
Fuck off aucklanders. Rieko had been average and the wings were hardly the problems. Not picking Cane was shit. Beauden played shit. Subbing goodhue was shit. Plenty of dumb stuff, but not crusaders bias.
Yep, and the worst AB tonight was J Barrett, not Bridge or Reece.
Barrett's mistake was unforgivable. He had plenty of time, just needed to kick it or pass it, and we could exit. With some territory and a bit of possession at only 6 points back, we could have still stolen it. But.
