Highlanders 2021 coaching staff
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@kiwi_expat that’s a full on first post!
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@Kiwiwomble That's off the cards apparently.
Brown already has to juggle his roles with the Highlanders and Japanese national side.
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@kiwi_expat I wondered if that may have changed during COVID
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@Siam no, but I've heard that Walden's teammates are equally baffled.
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@kiwi_expat yeah, MMT liked someone post on last weeks team announcement asking where Walden was...briefly
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Brown and or dermody with the final say. Need a bit of southern culture know how that was evidenced with Jamie and Brown- a bit of mongrel in the attitude perhaps.
Mauger's teams showed some promise at times, thought we might be building an offload game at pace, but then the tactics seem to change about 2 or 3 times a season.
Those most unlikely golden years when we always made the finals were a privilege i didn't take for granted ( fuck, I thought we'd never actually win the thing for a while there!), and Mauger didn't completely ruin that. However the player drain needs an overhaul and I guess Mauger made some progress this year.
But fuck him, he's from chch!
Brown to get a new contract?
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@kiwi_expat good mate, that's a start, ta.
Surely the walden omissions are a perfect mystery for the fern to decipher?
My money on Smudge to push things along...🙂
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@Kiwiwomble apparently the players aren't exactly thrilled with Mauger and want Brown as head coach. Hopefully CEO Roger Clarke receives this feedback because an unhappy dressing room is the worst situation for any club.
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@kiwi_expat where are you getting your intel?
@Siam @Bones already worked it out, Walden has been playing in a McKay or a collins costume
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@Kiwiwomble good point, Highlanders could be real benefactors of the COVID situation if international rugby isn't able to resume over next 18 months. You've got to wonder whether this 6 nations tournament with Japan and Fiji still goes ahead later this year..
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@Kiwiwomble more like Sio Tomkinson. McKay wasn't getting selected for the longest while, he'd only started 3 matches in three years since Mauger signed him in 2018.
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@kiwi_expat said in Highlanders 2021 coaching staff:
@Kiwiwomble more like Sio Tomkinson. McKay wasn't getting selected for the longest while, he'd only started 3 matches in three years since Mauger signed him in 2018.
Well yeah, and those 3 matches he'd been pretty ordinary. Walden disappears off the face of the earth and all of a sudden McKay is a gun....go figure....
Actual footage of McKay being kidnapped.
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@Stargazer said in Highlanders 2021 coaching staff:
I wonder whether he doesn't get any game time because he's signed somewhere else.
That would be a very petty stance to take, especially when you consider the form in the midfield and the injuries. It would make me distrust Mauger even more. I would hope there's more meat to it than that, but I wouldn't be surprised if not.
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just promote Hammer to the top job
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@kiwi_expat said in Highlanders 2021 coaching staff:
Mauger's problem is said to be man-management and selection related, sources have indicated there is increasing unrest among the Highlanders players with regards to Mauger's contradictory methods, he is alleged to say one thing one week then change his mind. Players are frustrated to find themselves on the outer after being selected one week then suddenly dropped again the next.
Do you think the last game might've changed attitudes towards Mauger?
