All Blacks 2024
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@Windows97 said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Crazy-Horse said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Windows97 said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Frank said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
I wish Joe Schmidt was in the coaching team rather than Leon MacDonald or Jason Holland.
You and me both, with all the coaching talent NZ produces it's hard to see Leon and Jason as being the 2 best assistant coach's we could get...
Who knows, but the best heads don't always make the best assistants and vice versa.
Well yeah they were both head coach's, was their anything in their careers that indicated that they'd make great assistant coach's?
Leon seemed to get the head coaching gig on the rationale that he was AC at the time and couldn't possibly be worse than Tana.
I understand it's all politics and careers but just from a simple rugby brains perspective we have Schmidt, Joseph, Brown, Rennie, Cotter all overseas (and seemingly choosing to do so i.e. not even apply) while we have Leon and Jason at home.
I seriously hope they prove me wrong, it just sits uneasy with me at the moment.
Leon McDonald did a good job for the Crusaders as an assistant he was rated highly by the players and other coaches.
Maybe he was pushed to quickly in to a HC role.The Crusaders are setting Tamiti Ellison up as their next coach but as Tamati said himself he is not ready for the role yet, 2 more years as assistant before taking over as HC.
All about timing and learning your craft imo.
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You misread it completely. I was expressing sympathy for their schedule.
If my provisional trip goes ahead - sailing in Adriatic, bit of a tour of the Balkans and hunkering down in northern Italy ahead of an AB test then nothing short of a sudden shortage of Barolo is going to be a problem.
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Leon did an excellent job at Ta$man - in tandem with Keiran Keane.
We were the bottom team in 2011. Won the Championship and were promoted in 2013.
Losing finalists the following year - as well as 2016 and 2017, by which time he was also Head Coach.
This was done through coaching expertise on one of the lowest budgets of any of the 14 teams. The idea that it was done by money is bullshit promoted by a bunch of know-nothing dickheads!!!
Leon also has a pretty good record as Blues coach - second only to Henry.
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@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
Holland was also an effective assistant coach at the Canes
Wasn't he an assistant coach when the Canes won the title under Boyd?
Holland put some great attacking plays together. I much prefer him as an assistant than a head coach.
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@Darren said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
Holland was also an effective assistant coach at the Canes
Wasn't he an assistant coach when the Canes won the title under Boyd?
Holland put some great attacking plays together. I much prefer him as an assistant than a head coach.
much like some players are actually best suited to coming off the bench and its something we could do better, not just the second best player in a position...some coaches are learning theyre better placed as assistants, Tony Brown is another
similar to football the difference between Manager and Coach
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Rugby Australia is considering scheduling an afternoon Bledisloe Cup clash in Sydney for the first time in almost three decades in an effort to attract families and avoid a clash with the NRL finals. RA boss Phil Waugh confirmed the governing body is in talks with broadcast partners the Nine Network and Stan Sport as well as other stakeholders about a daytime kickoff for the September 21 clash against the All Blacks at Accor Stadium. -
@Duluth said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
Rugby Australia is considering scheduling an afternoon Bledisloe Cup clash in Sydney for the first time in almost three decades in an effort to attract families and avoid a clash with the NRL finals. RA boss Phil Waugh confirmed the governing body is in talks with broadcast partners the Nine Network and Stan Sport as well as other stakeholders about a daytime kickoff for the September 21 clash against the All Blacks at Accor Stadium.Awesome - I'll be taking a kid or 3 to this game, putting it in the avo would be nice for beers and food afterwards, not to mention getting home before midnight
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awesome news although i do wish these decisions were made earlier so club comps could be adjusted to allow people to go
@NTA anything come across your radar?
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@Kiwiwomble said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
although i do wish these decisions were made earlier so club comps could be adjusted to allow people to go
god fucking damn it doesn't matter what positive moves are made, someone always has to have a whinge
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@mariner4life said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Kiwiwomble said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
although i do wish these decisions were made earlier so club comps could be adjusted to allow people to go
god fucking damn it doesn't matter what positive moves are made, someone always has to have a whinge
god fucking damn it doesn't matter polite and measured you are with a critique someone will always have a whinge about people having a whinge
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@Kiwiwomble Bledisloe in Sydney will be September 21st, so well after our season finishes.
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@NTA all good then! later that i thought they were
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@Kiwiwomble said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@mariner4life said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
@Kiwiwomble said in All Blacks 2024 - looking forward:
although i do wish these decisions were made earlier so club comps could be adjusted to allow people to go
god fucking damn it doesn't matter what positive moves are made, someone always has to have a whinge
god fucking damn it doesn't matter polite and measured you are with a critique someone will always have a whinge about people having a whinge
don't make me crank up my whinge to 11
but seriously, this is an awesome idea. And if your comp (in another city) can't reorganise one weekend of amateur rugby late in the year, when your comp hasn't even kicked off, then you have bigger issues.
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@mariner4life agreed! but late in the season (if not after the season as @NTA has said) will be finals...so not something you want players or spectators skipping out on
you sound like your whinge is already well past 11...was a very small point about maybe deciding these things before the draws are made so things dont have to be rearranged....but sounds like its not an issues so all moot
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play friday night
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@mariner4life
you think we have lights you could actually play under?!you seem to think im suggesting things cant be rearranged, of course they can...the point was do it right once consulting everyone involved, which maybe they have seeing as its after the season ends
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lol fuck this country is enormous. You are in a different city. You can't honestly expect the ARU to go to each amateur union in cities/states not even hosting the game and make sure they are on board?
Better make sure they get on the horn to FNQ Rugby as well. Oh wait nah they'll be finished too.
(also, if you've seen some of the lights we play under up here to avoid heat...)
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