The 'How is Fozzie going?' thread
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@antipodean Revolutionary! Visionary! And we shall name it "basics".
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@nostrildamus said in The 'How is Fozzie going?' thread:
@KiwiMurph forgot! but was he the first choice?
I think Tony Brown was everyone's first choice - but to me that's related to Brown's reputation not an issue with Rangi and Razor.
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@Chris-B My problem with Reason is he could write a balanced, interesting article if he wanted to but he seldom wants to.
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@akan004 said in The 'How is Fozzie going?' thread:
@Snowy said in The 'How is Fozzie going?' thread:
@Kiwiwomble said in The 'How is Fozzie going?' thread:
@antipodean said in The 'How is Fozzie going?' thread:
@gt12 said in The 'How is Fozzie going?' thread:
I still cant believe that we paid out a club to get Mooar back.
Attack mastermind to complement the defensive nous of McLeod.
Mcleod did a really good job with the Highlanders defence, not sure whats happened
We actually aren't conceding that many points. When did McLeod get the job? It doesn't look any worse than in the past.
Scoring on the other hand...perhaps I should say scoring when we need to has been problematic.
Defence isn't just about conceding points. It needs to be organised, aggressive and suffocating which will lead to the opposition making errors and conceding turnovers. Not seeing any of this atm. We make so few dominant tackles compared to some of the top teams.
Just copy Argentina!
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At the risk of being back on topic my concern is we may win and win well but it won't be correcting some major structural faults. Things to watch:
-bench timing
-plan A/plan B
-forward leg drive
-less passivity/reactivity
(Team selection? I don't know if that is a clear indicator, we seem to lose, choose a few extra specialists in key positions, win, then we devolve again for the next game).. -
@nostrildamus That's a fair comment.
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@MN5 said in The 'How is Fozzie going?' thread:
Fuck Reason writes some utter shit. If he was a ferner he’d be tarred and feathered and banned for life.
I'm tempted to say "The Grumpy Old Men thread is over there".
But won't.
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@nostrildamus said in The 'How is Fozzie going?' thread:
At the risk of being back on topic my concern is we may win and win well but it won't be correcting some major structural faults. Things to watch:
-bench timing
-plan A/plan B
-forward leg drive
-less passivity/reactivity
(Team selection? I don't know if that is a clear indicator, we seem to lose, choose a few extra specialists in key positions, win, then we devolve again for the next game)..To your list, I'd also add: Senior players stepping up when needed.
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@antipodean said in The 'How is Fozzie going?' thread:
The best 10 is one that keeps the ball in front of our forwards, won't try to play within our half unless it's turnover ball, carries the ball in both hands and plays straight to the line to fix the defence.
That rules pop gun Cruden out...
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@taniwharugby Well done Richard Knowler, almost 700 words to say absolutely nothing.
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@taniwharugby I don't like the article at all. Foster has learnt? How long has he been in the coaching team?!!
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@nostrildamus I didnt read it, but knew what the headline was referring to, which has long been trotted out.
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@Machpants said in The 'How is Fozzie going?' thread:
Holy shit. The fern woulda short circuited in 1949!!
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https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/55077763
BBC with a Fozzie vs Razor article.
Concludes....
The likelihood is Foster will make it to 2021 at least.
Coronavirus has spared him a more testing fixture list, with matches against Rugby World Cup finalists South Africa and England cancelled.
But, the pandemic also disrupted his own plans. After winning the Bledisloe Cup against Australia in style in October, his players may be forgiven for clocking off mentally in this strangest of years.
With New Zealand Rugby expected to post big financial losses, the cost of bringing Foster's contract to an early end would be a consideration as well.
But, another shock win for Argentina on Saturday might have them doing the sums.
"If they lose, things could get interesting quickly. All bets might be off," said Hinton.
"A heavy defeat and the world could implode for Ian Foster."
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I think his response is a sign that he’s not dealing with the pressure very well. This statement I find pretty remarkable:
“They may know the game from what they see in the 80 minutes but they do not see a lot of the stuff that goes on behind the scenes.”
Who really gives a fuck what happens behind the scenes. At the end of the day it’s scoreboard so I’m not quite sure what he’s trying to say. That they’re working on things behind the scene and things are gonna get better? Other than some people calling foster fat I’m not sure the fern has really been cruel. The problem is is that most of us agreed that Foster wasn’t the right man in the first place and this was pretty unanimous. We just don’t have confidence in him as a coach.
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@Machpants said in The 'How is Fozzie going?' thread:
I think a few qualifiers needed for 1949. 2 games were lost to Aus while the best players were on the tour from hell in SA.
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@MN5 said in The 'How is Fozzie going?' thread:
Holy shit. The fern woulda short circuited in 1949!!
We would have been lucky to have 15 rugby players after the war and that was the year that we toured SA, whilst the Aussies came to us so that we could have Maori players involoved in the All Blacks (SA apartheid).
We actually had two tests on one day. So two half AB teams.
