All Black Coach - Ian Foster
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@Tim said in All Black Coach - Ian Foster:
I opened that thinking it was going to be a big whine by Robertson. It was the opposite.
Kudos to him from getting strength from a tough interview.
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@Hooroo said in All Black Coach - Ian Foster:
@Tim said in All Black Coach - Ian Foster:
I opened that thinking it was going to be a big whine by Robertson. It was the opposite.
Kudos to him from getting strength from a tough interview.
I actually opened that thinking it would be the opposite ... the headline just seemed to sensationalist.
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I think Henry has also said that he expects Razor to be the AB coach - just not this time round it seems. I reckon the harder Henry pushes the more he probably rates you. Possibly a hangover from his principal days.
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@Paekakboyz said in All Black Coach - Ian Foster:
I think Henry has also said that he expects Razor to be the AB coach - just not this time round it seems. I reckon the harder Henry pushes the more he probably rates you. Possibly a hangover from his principal days.
I think Razor stands a better chance to be a strong long term ABs coach if he gets a little more seasoning. Maybe even an overseas gig too
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@canefan said in All Black Coach - Ian Foster:
@Paekakboyz said in All Black Coach - Ian Foster:
I think Henry has also said that he expects Razor to be the AB coach - just not this time round it seems. I reckon the harder Henry pushes the more he probably rates you. Possibly a hangover from his principal days.
I think Razor stands a better chance to be a strong long term ABs coach if he gets a little more seasoning. Maybe even an overseas gig too
Yeah, agree. I think John Mitchell has forever ruined inexperienced coaches getting the top job.
Even though I think it's been well proven that John Mitchells main problem was John Mitchell, not his experience.
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@MajorRage inexperienced as a head coach at international level you mean? He'd coached the forwards in both Ireland and England.
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@Bones said in All Black Coach - Ian Foster:
@MajorRage inexperienced as a head coach at international level you mean? He'd coached the forwards in both Ireland and England.
General experience. Mitchell had only a few months head coach experience I think. Robertson has zero overseas experience.
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@Paekakboyz said in All Black Coach - Ian Foster:
I think Henry has also said that he expects Razor to be the AB coach - just not this time round it seems. I reckon the harder Henry pushes the more he probably rates you. Possibly a hangover from his principal days.
Ted has also been pretty self-critical on his preparedness for the Welsh and Lions roles in parts and he had decades more experience than Razor (different time of course).
@Hooroo said in All Black Coach - Ian Foster:
I opened that thinking it was going to be a big whine by Robertson.
The bit about them obviously wanting continuity is a bit of a whine, but certainly not of Deans proportions after 2007.
I do really wish Rennie and/or Joseph had have put their hand up and the process hadn't been so binary as continuity vs change.
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John Mitchell gets an awful lot of crap for a bloke that won two out of two Tri-Nations, won back the bledisloe (after how many years?) Coached a team that put 50 past Aus and SA away in consecutive weeks.
I'm not saying he was a great coach, but he's far from terrible. His assistant coaching results would point to that. John's problem appears to be his complete inability to get along with people when he is in charge.
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@mariner4life said in All Black Coach - Ian Foster:
John Mitchell gets an awful lot of crap for a bloke that won two out of two Tri-Nations, won back the bledisloe (after how many years?) Coached a team that put 50 past Aus and SA away in consecutive weeks.
I'm not saying he was a great coach, but he's far from terrible. His assistant coaching results would point to that. John's problem appears to be his complete inability to get along with people when he is in charge.
Kind of a big problem for a high profile coach. He acted like an A-hole in front of the media and to many of his players
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@canefan said in All Black Coach - Ian Foster:
@mariner4life said in All Black Coach - Ian Foster:
John Mitchell gets an awful lot of crap for a bloke that won two out of two Tri-Nations, won back the bledisloe (after how many years?) Coached a team that put 50 past Aus and SA away in consecutive weeks.
I'm not saying he was a great coach, but he's far from terrible. His assistant coaching results would point to that. John's problem appears to be his complete inability to get along with people when he is in charge.
Kind of a big problem for a high profile coach. He acted like an A-hole in front of the media and to many of his players
indeed, but in a results based industry...
I'm just waiting for Nepia, because no one ever gets tired of listening to how he retired Cullen....
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@mariner4life said in All Black Coach - Ian Foster:
@canefan said in All Black Coach - Ian Foster:
@mariner4life said in All Black Coach - Ian Foster:
John Mitchell gets an awful lot of crap for a bloke that won two out of two Tri-Nations, won back the bledisloe (after how many years?) Coached a team that put 50 past Aus and SA away in consecutive weeks.
I'm not saying he was a great coach, but he's far from terrible. His assistant coaching results would point to that. John's problem appears to be his complete inability to get along with people when he is in charge.
Kind of a big problem for a high profile coach. He acted like an A-hole in front of the media and to many of his players
indeed, but in a results based industry...
I'm just waiting for Nepia, because no one ever gets tired of listening to how he retired Cullen....
If you choose to act like that you had better keep winning, and he lost the big prize. At that time the standard operating procedure was to get rid of the losing coach. Don't get me started about his poor treatment of CC, one of the AB greats
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@canefan said in All Black Coach - Ian Foster:
@mariner4life said in All Black Coach - Ian Foster:
@canefan said in All Black Coach - Ian Foster:
@mariner4life said in All Black Coach - Ian Foster:
John Mitchell gets an awful lot of crap for a bloke that won two out of two Tri-Nations, won back the bledisloe (after how many years?) Coached a team that put 50 past Aus and SA away in consecutive weeks.
I'm not saying he was a great coach, but he's far from terrible. His assistant coaching results would point to that. John's problem appears to be his complete inability to get along with people when he is in charge.
Kind of a big problem for a high profile coach. He acted like an A-hole in front of the media and to many of his players
indeed, but in a results based industry...
I'm just waiting for Nepia, because no one ever gets tired of listening to how he retired Cullen....
If you choose to act like that you had better keep winning, and he lost the big prize. At that time the standard operating procedure was to get rid of the losing coach. Don't get me started about his poor treatment of CC, one of the AB greats
Cullen was done in 2003
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@mariner4life said in All Black Coach - Ian Foster:
John Mitchell gets an awful lot of crap for a bloke that won two out of two Tri-Nations, won back the bledisloe (after how many years?) Coached a team that put 50 past Aus and SA away in consecutive weeks.
I'm not saying he was a great coach, but he's far from terrible. His assistant coaching results would point to that. John's problem appears to be his complete inability to get along with people when he is in charge.
I also think his public persona/personality doesn't/didn't do him any favours either (not saying ideally it should matter but it does). He's an aloof kind of bloke. Talk of journeys etc.
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@KiwiMurph said in All Black Coach - Ian Foster:
@mariner4life said in All Black Coach - Ian Foster:
John Mitchell gets an awful lot of crap for a bloke that won two out of two Tri-Nations, won back the bledisloe (after how many years?) Coached a team that put 50 past Aus and SA away in consecutive weeks.
I'm not saying he was a great coach, but he's far from terrible. His assistant coaching results would point to that. John's problem appears to be his complete inability to get along with people when he is in charge.
I also think his public persona/personality doesn't/didn't do him any favours either (not saying ideally it should matter but it does). He's an aloof kind of bloke. Talk of journeys etc.
which no one would have given a toss about if he had won the World Cup like we all pretty much expected.
