Blues win percentage against NZ teams
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@bovidae said in Blues win percentage against NZ teams:
Rennie had a huge cleanout when he took over before the 2012 season. Something like 13 new players, the majority from outside the region, and many not household names (e.g. Tikorotuma). The likes of BBBR and Tameifuna played much bigger roles than expected. I know that the coaches spent a lot of time analysing players during the NPC and were meticulous in their recruitment.
Yeah, I was absolutely gutted with that squad he'd cobbled together. From my uneducated eye, a bunch of 20 year old nobodies. Brodie Retallick!? We're screwed!
When Ben Tameifuna waddled onto the field as an injury replacement against the Blues I thought I was about to see a car crash.
Also, I wasn't a Cruden fan... didn't think he was really up to it and couldn't get past the fact he looked like he was there thanks to the make-a-wish foundation.
Yup, I know my stuff.
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When a coach has all these guys in "career best form", has it occurred to you that it might be caused by the coach.
McKenzie did it with players, Genia aside, who suddenly lost form after him. I say that's because he was responsible for making them play above themselves, not because he somehow got super lucky and arrived just as his team got all these guys playing coincidentally at the peak of their careers.
The players Smith had held their form for pretty much every coach they had. He built the team, but they were a team that had a solid base.
The Reds returned to utter dreck a couple of years after McKenzie.
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@chester-draws indeed. I never said it wasn't the coach. I got the feeling from a couple of posts that the Reds win was being written off as some kind of fluke. I was simply refuting that. The Reds were a talented team well coached.
Eddie started the build, McKenzie was the real driving force, bloke was a bloody good coach. Getting him fired was the dumbest thing the ARU did
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@mariner4life said in Blues win percentage against NZ teams:
Eddie started the build, McKenzie was the real driving force, bloke was a bloody good coach. Getting him fired was the dumbest thing the ARU did
He was a regular contributor to Ruggamatrix and I used to enjoy listening to his thoughts on rugby. A real thinker of the game, which by the looks has now been lost from rugby altogether.
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@milk said in Blues win percentage against NZ teams:
@bovidae said in Blues win percentage against NZ teams:
Rennie had a huge cleanout when he took over before the 2012 season. Something like 13 new players, the majority from outside the region, and many not household names (e.g. Tikorotuma). The likes of BBBR and Tameifuna played much bigger roles than expected. I know that the coaches spent a lot of time analysing players during the NPC and were meticulous in their recruitment.
Yeah, I was absolutely gutted with that squad he'd cobbled together. From my uneducated eye, a bunch of 20 year old nobodies. **Brodie Retallick!? We're screwed!
When Ben Tameifuna waddled onto the field as an injury replacement against the Blues I thought I was about to see a car crash.**
Also, I wasn't a Cruden fan... didn't think he was really up to it and couldn't get past the fact he looked like he was there thanks to the make-a-wish foundation.
Yup, I know my stuff.
Clearly you hadn't watched the 2011 Magpies run to the semi final ;).
Or apparently any Poo games or the U20s.
Edit: Hmm, why isn't the bold working for me?
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@nepia said in Blues win percentage against NZ teams:
@milk said in Blues win percentage against NZ teams:
@bovidae said in Blues win percentage against NZ teams:
Rennie had a huge cleanout when he took over before the 2012 season. Something like 13 new players, the majority from outside the region, and many not household names (e.g. Tikorotuma). The likes of BBBR and Tameifuna played much bigger roles than expected. I know that the coaches spent a lot of time analysing players during the NPC and were meticulous in their recruitment.
Yeah, I was absolutely gutted with that squad he'd cobbled together. From my uneducated eye, a bunch of 20 year old nobodies. **Brodie Retallick!? We're screwed!
When Ben Tameifuna waddled onto the field as an injury replacement against the Blues I thought I was about to see a car crash.**
Also, I wasn't a Cruden fan... didn't think he was really up to it and couldn't get past the fact he looked like he was there thanks to the make-a-wish foundation.
Yup, I know my stuff.
Clearly you hadn't watched the 2011 Magpies run to the semi final ;).
Or apparently any Poo games or the U20s.
Edit: Hmm, why isn't the bold working for me?
nobody's got time to watch that dross mate. Had you jumped ship at that point? Or was it in the lead-up to the 2012 finals?
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@mariner4life said in Blues win percentage against NZ teams:
@nepia said in Blues win percentage against NZ teams:
@milk said in Blues win percentage against NZ teams:
@bovidae said in Blues win percentage against NZ teams:
Rennie had a huge cleanout when he took over before the 2012 season. Something like 13 new players, the majority from outside the region, and many not household names (e.g. Tikorotuma). The likes of BBBR and Tameifuna played much bigger roles than expected. I know that the coaches spent a lot of time analysing players during the NPC and were meticulous in their recruitment.
Yeah, I was absolutely gutted with that squad he'd cobbled together. From my uneducated eye, a bunch of 20 year old nobodies. **Brodie Retallick!? We're screwed!
When Ben Tameifuna waddled onto the field as an injury replacement against the Blues I thought I was about to see a car crash.**
Also, I wasn't a Cruden fan... didn't think he was really up to it and couldn't get past the fact he looked like he was there thanks to the make-a-wish foundation.
Yup, I know my stuff.
Clearly you hadn't watched the 2011 Magpies run to the semi final ;).
Or apparently any Poo games or the U20s.
Edit: Hmm, why isn't the bold working for me?
nobody's got time to watch that dross mate. Had you jumped ship at that point? Or was it in the lead-up to the 2012 finals?
I jumped shit at the end of the 2011 Super comp, so before the finals
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@chris-b said in Blues win percentage against NZ teams:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Blues win percentage against NZ teams:
He was also tactically inept and the quality of rugby his team played was terrible.
In fairness, that was his major failing.
He clearly changed the culture at the Canes and, in fact, built a team with the capability to go close to winning the championship - but, they didn't really come close under him.
Agree, but the team he took over also had the capability of winning and should have walked into the play-offs.
But he's clearly a very capable assistant and he seems to be happy enough to have that role now.
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1 win out of our last 27 against NZ teams aint bad.
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@african-monkey said in Blues win percentage against NZ teams:
1 win out of our last 27 against NZ teams aint bad.
Quite the Australian level stat that.
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@duluth said in Blues win percentage against NZ teams:
19 matches for Umaga’s Blues - 1 win
5.3%
I think it’s just a bit of bad luck. T deserves his contract extension
Crusaders in Christchurch next week
Whether you think it's his fault or not there's just absolutely no way you can keep a coach with that record on. They are beyond taking the piss with that extension.
