Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc
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@nta said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
Now, as an Aussie: please keep Foster and carry on like this through to ... well, forever?
Pretty sure this is the opinion of the entire rugby world outside of New Zealand.
Interesting that Devine played under him and has such a low opinion of him. Have to wonder if some of the ABs are having the same thoughts.
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The other Southern Hemisphere teams all cleaned out their Northern opposition easily and consistently in the Northern series so the long away season and covid restrictions on players joining and leaving squad clearly is just an excuse from the Foster apologists. ABs should at least have an unbeaten record this year like the other 4 or 5 teams everyone knows have passed them. Any half decently coached team should be able to play well on the road as the players have less distractions too. And no point in rotating players or easing up. The whole point is to win by as much as possible and hammer the opposition for the whole 87.5 minutes with your best 15 to maintain the aura buit up over 100+ years.
Time to bring in Razor and save him the indignity of ever having his team lose again to the likes of the Highlanders and Chiefs when that was clearly only due to the heinous decision not to promote him. That will instantly transform George Bridge Richie Mounga Baydon Ennor and David Havili back into motivated world beaters and maestros of scintillating international backplay.
Just don't suffer him the indignity of asking him to join the AB's as an Assistant coach as the rot there now would surely impact him.
It is all so clear and obvious when you read and recycle what the acclaimed experts and passionate AB fans like Mark Reason Stephen Jones and Chris Rattue have to say and then you can quickly get confirmation from so many ferners that nobody in NZ disagrees with that expert analysis.
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@arhs
You realise you are making excuses for a guy who has zero credentials and also lost back to back to Argentina (for the first time) and the Wallabies.There are never any actual positive claims made about Foster, just excuses and strawmen that an alternative coach (with an objectively better CV) might also not be up to it.
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@kiwi_expat said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
I do wonder was Razor even over the heads of some of the decision-makers in this process? I don’t mean that in a pejorative way, but he thinks fresh and he thinks different.
Maybe that scared some folk."This!
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@arhs said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
Time to bring in Razor and save him the indignity of ever having his team lose again to the likes of the Highlanders and Chiefs when that was clearly only due to the heinous decision not to promote him. That will instantly transform George Bridge Richie Mounga Baydon Ennor and David Havili back into motivated world beaters and maestros of scintillating international backplay.
If you think it's motivation they lack then you have hit the nail on the head regarding Foster. If the coach can't motivate his players because he's hopeless in himself then the coach has to go.
Foster must have the weakest CV for any of the top 6 teams in world rugby. (Are we still in the top 6? )
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@kiwiwomble said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@chris kind of backs up the idea he thinks he can just stick 15 of the best players out there and one of them will do something special to win it
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@chris where we also lose development time for our current crop of emerging players. So they might fall by the wayside for reasons other than talent/potential! not to mention the real and present danger of losing more while playing some weird brand of rugby that goes well in Fozzies head.
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@nzzp NZR gave Fozzie the bed to make, now we have to sit and watch while Fozzie tries to put the fitted sheet on!
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@taniwharugby said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@nzzp NZR gave Fozzie the bed to make, now we have to sit and watch while Fozzie tries to put the fitted sheet on!
he's putting it on the top! Noooooooooo
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@hooroo said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
I have some sympathy for the guy as he shouldn't have been there in the first place.
We knew this 5 years ago. NZRU did not.
If he does resign I imagine it will be because of family reasons etc etc.
Give the man some credit. If he is going to fall on his sword it won't be a sham. I think he would do it early and 'in the best interests' of the team.
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@crucial said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@hooroo said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
I have some sympathy for the guy as he shouldn't have been there in the first place.
We knew this 5 years ago. NZRU did not.
If he does resign I imagine it will be because of family reasons etc etc.
Give the man some credit. If he is going to fall on his sword it won't be a sham. I think he would do it early and 'in the best interests' of the team.
The complicating factor is if his assistants and linked to his contract and that he wouldn't leave them in the lurch I think.I don't see where credit is due.
Who the hell comes out and says the team has progressed this year? He is in a dream world. I would hate to see what we looked liked if he though we were regressing.
Massively out of his league
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@hooroo said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
I have some sympathy for the guy as he shouldn't have been there in the first place.
We knew this 5 years ago. NZRU did not.
Respectfully, but we really did not. We knew that his record wasn't good, but we didn't know what he was doing behind the scenes with the ABs, alongside some seriously good coaches. So much goes on behind closed doors, there was a chance (small, admittedly) that he had lifted his game, found some depths that weren't readily visible, and vastly improved.
We feared he wasn't up to it, but we didn't know. Pedantic, I know, but we shouldn't retrospectively rewrite history. Otherwise it's like saying we 'know' that Nonu isn't up to it after his effort against Ireland in 2006
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@hooroo said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
I have some sympathy for the guy as he shouldn't have been there in the first place.
We knew this
5 years agowhile he was at the Chiefs. NZRU did not.If he does resign I imagine it will be because of family reasons etc etc.
I tend to agree, it s going to be tough on his family, i did have to edit the length of time though that we knew, I still can't believe he was hired to start with
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@nzzp said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@hooroo said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
I have some sympathy for the guy as he shouldn't have been there in the first place.
We knew this 5 years ago. NZRU did not.
Respectfully, but we really did not. We knew that his record wasn't good, but we didn't know what he was doing behind the scenes with the ABs, alongside some seriously good coaches. So much goes on behind closed doors, there was a chance (small, admittedly) that he had lifted his game, found some depths that weren't readily visible, and vastly improved.
We feared he wasn't up to it, but we didn't know. Pedantic, I know, but we shouldn't retrospectively rewrite history. Otherwise it's like saying we 'know' that Nonu isn't up to it after his effort against Ireland in 2006
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... but we knew, ya know
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@nzzp I tend to disagree you can only go on past performance and he never delivered at the Chiefs
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reckon there is zero chance he resigns. Would you? Be honest.
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@hooroo said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@crucial said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@hooroo said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
I have some sympathy for the guy as he shouldn't have been there in the first place.
We knew this 5 years ago. NZRU did not.
If he does resign I imagine it will be because of family reasons etc etc.
Give the man some credit. If he is going to fall on his sword it won't be a sham. I think he would do it early and 'in the best interests' of the team.
The complicating factor is if his assistants and linked to his contract and that he wouldn't leave them in the lurch I think.I don't see where credit is due.
Who the hell comes out and says the team has progressed this year? He is in a dream world. I would hate to see what we looked liked if he though we were regressing.
Massively out of his league
Credit is from being a loyal servant to the game and being part of a great era. Sure he has failings at the top level but that doesn't detract from the person and he doesn't deserve vilification.
