Hesson gooooooone!
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Resigned effective 31 July
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12066213
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Wow! He has been pretty vocal throughout his tenure about the impact of coaching on his family and work/life. Coaching in cricket does seem to be one of more demanding coaching roles. Wonder if he's going to a commentary gig for IPL?? I'd seen that he'd done a bit of work this last season.
Also wonder if he might pop up in a talent scouting role or something... once he's had a break.
Big question is who is next cab off the rank for the role??
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Well played little nerdy looking fella who got pilloried high and low when he took over a poisoned chalice.
He stuck to his guns and contributed to us fans enjoying and being able to be proud of a decent and hard working team.
He's certainly earned some great cricketing jobs that will no doubt come his way in the future.
Well done fella
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And here I was thinking they were going to announce the return of Cricket Max....
Shocking however, as noted above, Hesson had talked about wanting to spend more time with family.
What's Darren Lehmann up to this days?
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@siam said in Hesson gooooooone!:
Well played little nerdy looking fella who got pilloried high and low when he took over a poisoned chalice.
He stuck to his guns and contributed to us fans enjoying and being able to be proud of a decent and hard working team.
He's certainly earned some great cricketing jobs that will no doubt come his way in the future.
Well done fella
Agreed!
Thought he was the biggest mistake of NZ Cricket and I was happily proven wrong.
Best coach we have seen in along time. Perfect fit for the three types of cricket now. Created balance at all formats.
Gutted he is moving on.
I am hoping there is nothing more to this story.
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Fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So gutted.
I was on board his bandwagon from day one. He was a special coaching talent. -
Far out, thought he'd give the CWC another crack before moving on. But, fair enough - I have a young family and being away from them for long periods would suck balls.
I'm comfortable labeling him as one of our, if not our best ever coach. The culture, pride and professionalism he installed in the team has been absolutely phenomenal - I'd rate it alongside what Henry did with the All Blacks. I'm hopeful that like the All Blacks, what Hesson has done will filter through and continue on with whoever the next coach ends up being.
And all that after the horror start - being thrown a hospital pass by NZ cricket on the captaincy issue, and the sheer incompetence of David White in his handling of the situation. And then the disastrous tour to SA getting rolled for 45 and certain player(s) showing absolutely no pride in the jersey... ahh should I say cap. To turn that around is nothing short of incredible - and thank fuck we had him at the helm lest we waste the world class talent we have in Rosco, Kane and Boult.
Go well Hesson. When the guys were signing autographs at Britomart I made a point of sneaking around the back to get you to sign my son's miniature bat, and I'm glad I did. A top class coach and NZ cricket fans are forever in your debt for building a team we can be genuinely proud of.
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@baron-silas-greenback said in Hesson gooooooone!:
Fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So gutted.
I was on board his bandwagon from day one. He was a special coaching talent.I've always liked you, BSG.
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@no-quarter said in Hesson gooooooone!:
And all that after the horror start - being thrown a hospital pass by NZ cricket on the captaincy issue, and the sheer incompetence of David White in his handling of the situation.
Hesson threw the NZC the hospital pass on that one. I absolutely disagree with the handling and nature of the Taylor sacking, but there is no doubt he presided over a period of relative consistency in performance and selection with the team.
Not leaving the side in total inner-turmoil automatically places him in the top half of Black Cap coaches. History will likely treat him kinder than other CWC semi-final making coaches because Grant Elliot hit that six at Eden Park, but for me he sits somewhere in the Lees-Rixon tier below the Aberhadrt tenure.
As for a replacement - Flem is my favourite NZ cricketer of all time but I would want to see him coach 4-day cricket first to believe he can coach/coexist outside the T20 format. I would love to revisit John Wright free from Buchannan or various overseas options. Grant Bradburn is a roughie coaching Scotland currently (Hesson came via Kenya).
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@mn5 said in Hesson gooooooone!:
Hesson obviously had a fantastic record but was that down to him or down to the fact his reign coincided with the most talented group of players in NZ cricket history ?
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He deserves a great deal of credit. We'll see how his successor does, he has big shoes to fill
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@mn5 the old " is it the coach or the player" circular argument. Fair question though
NZ only has so many world class players and I'd argue that Flem, Cairns, Astle, Nash, Parorehad as much ability if not more than Taylor, Anderson, Guptill, McCullum and Elliott.
Kane is an outlier cricket nerd
Hesson ( and McCullum by his recommendation) formed an environment where it looks like all the best players landed at his feet but early on those players weren't much different to the past.
That they became NZ greats is surely in no small way due to wee Mike's coaching and nurturing and the environment he engineered -
@siam said in Hesson gooooooone!:
@mn5 the old " is it the coach or the player" circular argument. Fair question though
NZ only has so many world class players and I'd argue that Flem, Cairns, Astle, Nash, Parorehad as much ability if not more than Taylor, Anderson, Guptill, McCullum and Elliott.
Kane is an outlier cricket nerd
Hesson ( and McCullum by his recommendation) formed an environment where it looks like all the best players landed at his feet but early on those players weren't much different to the past.
That they became NZ greats is surely in no small way due to wee Mike's coaching and nurturing and the environment he engineeredParore? No fucken way.
Also none of those batsmen are a patch on KW and Rossco.
Mind you Cairns would walk into the current team to be fair.
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@mn5 said in Hesson gooooooone!:
@siam said in Hesson gooooooone!:
@mn5 the old " is it the coach or the player" circular argument. Fair question though
NZ only has so many world class players and I'd argue that Flem, Cairns, Astle, Nash, Parorehad as much ability if not more than Taylor, Anderson, Guptill, McCullum and Elliott.
Kane is an outlier cricket nerd
Hesson ( and McCullum by his recommendation) formed an environment where it looks like all the best players landed at his feet but early on those players weren't much different to the past.
That they became NZ greats is surely in no small way due to wee Mike's coaching and nurturing and the environment he engineeredParore? No fucken way.
Also none of those batsmen are a patch on KW and Rossco.
Mind you Cairns would walk into the current team to be fair.
Ian Smith begrudgingly acknowledged that Parore was the best keeper in the world in the latter stages of his career, and a reasonable batsman as well.
If we're talking talent, 80s had Hadlee, Smith (Hadlee rated him very highly as a keeper), M. Crowe and Wright as top tier NZ players. Bracewell was actually a good player as well (one of our best spinners, albeit not a lot of competition outside Vettori).
On topic, Hesson apparently decided to leave now to give the new coach time to prepare for the CWC. Shows the unselfish nature and class of the man! Good coach and best wishes to him.
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@siam said in Hesson gooooooone!:
@mn5 the old " is it the coach or the player" circular argument. Fair question though
In some sports sure, but in cricket it is largely the cattle. The holes in the team have been the same for sometime but it's not a reflection of Hesson's talent that we can't produce a wicket taking spinner, a consistent test opener and we have a dearth of quality all-rounders.
Likewise Williamson and Southee were known quantities before Hesson, we were counting the days for Wagner's eligibility and Taylor would attribute any improvements to Crowe. McCullum we knew was good when his give-a-shit-meter was on, and funnily enough when captain is was.
Couldn't solve Ryder, couldn't keep McLenaghan and Bracewell was squandered and on the positive side he got more out of Ronchi, de Grandhomme, Watling and Elliot than anyone could have imagined.
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@rotated said in Hesson gooooooone!:
@siam said in Hesson gooooooone!:
@mn5 the old " is it the coach or the player" circular argument. Fair question though
In some sports sure, but in cricket it is largely the cattle. The holes in the team have been the same for sometime but it's not a reflection of Hesson's talent that we can't produce a wicket taking spinner, a consistent test opener and we have a dearth of quality all-rounders.
Likewise Williamson and Southee were known quantities before Hesson, we were counting the days for Wagner's eligibility and Taylor would attribute any improvements to Crowe. McCullum we knew was good when his give-a-shit-meter was on, and funnily enough when captain is was.
Couldn't solve Ryder, couldn't keep McLenaghan and Bracewell was squandered and on the positive side he got more out of Ronchi, de Grandhomme, Watling and Elliot than anyone could have imagined.
I think this post answers things pretty emphatically. He probably deserves a lot of credit for having a punt on Dr Grandhomme though
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@mn5 I don't think it does. It's a superficial analysis that states with certainty that Hesson had no input to Taylor's improvements and misses the fact that Hesson reversed previous coaches choices for captain ( at great expense to himself) and that got the best out of Baz and consequently the team.
But no matter, my point is that Hesson provided an environment and an attitude for talented players to become fine players and performers.
We've had fine players before but not an environment like since 2014.
Hesson deserves plaudits at this time and dismissing his input as " he had the best players" diminishes that he presided over arguably the best performances from a NZ cricket team and unlike most coaches, he left the team in a far better state than he found it.
