Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc
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@kiwiwomble said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@mariner4life said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@kiwiwomble said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@nzzp would that be enough though?
what? winning? holy shit maybe it right what everyone says about us
dont get me wrong, not saying i wouldn't taken it, im just asking if that would have been enough to think Fozzie was doing a good job? on paper do we think the current team is only a whisker above some of these teams?
yes
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Highlander, over on theroar.com.au has pointed out that our blueprint of Lions 1, playing (smashing) off 9 worked so very well. I seem to remember a similar thing putting us back on top against the French for a 1/4 or so. Why is it not used more often? Why is the tactic fling it around the backs? Clueless gameplans is what annoys me, we have the layers to be winning but not the tactics and org. It is 100% coaching problems, not learning
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@kiwimurph said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@mariner4life said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
To be fair, from our 2nd try right up until the intercept i thought we would win on Sunday.
24-6 down at halftime is the issue. It's all well and good talking about the 3rd quarter fightback but 24-6 down at halftime is unacceptable and ultimately costs you the match as the opposition are going to get momentum in the second half and by being 24-6 down you are leaving no room for error and no able to apply scoreboard pressure as were so far back were never able to get in front.
There's been a lot of chat about the intercept and the Mounga missed tackle but how about the shitshow that was the first 40?
again, as a coach can you imagine sitting in the box, and the game is barely under way when Jordie kicks the ball, under no pressure, out on the 5m?? Or Barnes allowing a linebreak from an accidental offside/obstruction? Or Mounga for some ungodly reason following a lead runner in and leaving a yawning hole. Or Smith throwing one of the worst passes of his career?
We get down teh other end, the line is open, and Coles drops it
Individual errors cost us so badly in that first half.
To me the Ireland performance was so much worse because we were bullied out of it. Errors killed us against the French. Bad, individual skill errors.
I've made a massive post about my view on where we are at, i don't need to say it all again. But i am not convinced things are as bad as we are making out.
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@mariner4life i think some of us feel that those errors at least partially come from things like uncertainty on gameplan or some moving around different positions, some over played and other underplayed, maybe being surprised by how the opposition are playing, all things that the coach has a major influence on
I hope you're right though and we're close to "clicking"
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@mariner4life Yeah I think a huge part of the problem comes down to our defence.
The pattern sucks. I'd rather see us commit to a rush defence even if it resulted in more penalties. Same story for the breakdown - our breakdown work is poor which means teams can rack up phase after phase.
Our defence simply doesn't put pressure on the opposition.
To put it in NFL terms in the Ireland game our defence was bend but don't break defence but doesn't generate enough turnovers (or punts). So what ended up happening was the time of possession was hugely in Ireland's favour which ended up telling in the second half.
In the French game we did break and leaked 40 points (33 if you take away the intercept).
We conceded 40 points to France, 29 to Ireland, 31 to the Boks, 23 to Fiji and didn't keep the Wallabies under 20 in any of the three Bledisloe games.
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@kiwiwomble said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
I hope you're right though and we're close to "clicking"
i didn't say that, at all
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@mariner4life said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@kiwiwomble said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
I hope you're right though and we're close to "clicking"
i didn't say that, at all
sorry, must have misunderstood, i asked if we'd pinched a few wins would that be enough for fozzie to be considered to be doing a good job and you said yes, i took that as being only close to being acceptable
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@kiwiwomble said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@mariner4life said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@kiwiwomble said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
I hope you're right though and we're close to "clicking"
i didn't say that, at all
sorry, must have misunderstood, i asked if we'd pinched a few wins would that be enough for fozzie to be considered to be doing a good job and you said yes, i took that as being only close to being acceptable
Winning lots is his only remit. The only metric that counts. The manner of those wins counts to fans and fuck all else.
So yeah, if we burgled those wins i would say he did pretty well
I never said we were close to clicking though. Beating Ireland that day would have been a robbery.
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@mariner4life said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@kiwiwomble said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@mariner4life said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@kiwiwomble said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
I hope you're right though and we're close to "clicking"
i didn't say that, at all
sorry, must have misunderstood, i asked if we'd pinched a few wins would that be enough for fozzie to be considered to be doing a good job and you said yes, i took that as being only close to being acceptable
Winning lots is his only remit. The only metric that counts. The manner of those wins counts to fans and fuck all else.
So yeah, if we burgled those wins i would say he did pretty well
I never said we were close to clicking though. Beating Ireland that day would have been a robbery.
It is better this way. If we had burgled wins vs Ireland or France it would have given the NZRFU and the AB coaches priceless breathing room. And a chance to paper over our flaws
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@mariner4life said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@kiwimurph said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@mariner4life said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
To be fair, from our 2nd try right up until the intercept i thought we would win on Sunday.
24-6 down at halftime is the issue. It's all well and good talking about the 3rd quarter fightback but 24-6 down at halftime is unacceptable and ultimately costs you the match as the opposition are going to get momentum in the second half and by being 24-6 down you are leaving no room for error and no able to apply scoreboard pressure as were so far back were never able to get in front.
There's been a lot of chat about the intercept and the Mounga missed tackle but how about the shitshow that was the first 40?
again, as a coach can you imagine sitting in the box, and the game is barely under way when Jordie kicks the ball, under no pressure, out on the 5m?? Or Barnes allowing a linebreak from an accidental offside/obstruction? Or Mounga for some ungodly reason following a lead runner in and leaving a yawning hole. Or Smith throwing one of the worst passes of his career?
We get down teh other end, the line is open, and Coles drops it
Individual errors cost us so badly in that first half.
To me the Ireland performance was so much worse because we were bullied out of it. Errors killed us against the French. Bad, individual skill errors.
I've made a massive post about my view on where we are at, i don't need to say it all again. But i am not convinced things are as bad as we are making out.
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@machpants said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
Highlander, over on theroar.com.au has pointed out that our blueprint of Lions 1, playing (smashing) off 9 worked so very well. I seem to remember a similar thing putting us back on top against the French for a 1/4 or so. Why is it not used more often? Why is the tactic fling it around the backs? Clueless gameplans is what annoys me, we have the layers to be winning but not the tactics and org. It is 100% coaching problems, not learning
Yep, I don't get this. It's like they found the perfect recipe and then for some inexplicable reason decided to bin it. It may be that it's more attritional but it's not like the opposition teams are saving themselves at any point during the game. We have the players for it so let's farking do it, rather than this fan across field, hot potato bullshit to George Bridge.
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@kiwiwomble said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@canefan thats what i was getting at but the sarcasm seems to have been too subtle
On the Fern? Too subtle? As if that ever happened!
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@nostrildamus said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@kiwiwomble said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@canefan thats what i was getting at but the sarcasm seems to have been too subtle
On the Fern? Too subtle? As if that ever happened!
no, i seriously think i was too subtle.......
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@kiwiwomble said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@nostrildamus said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@kiwiwomble said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@canefan thats what i was getting at but the sarcasm seems to have been too subtle
On the Fern? Too subtle? As if that ever happened!
no, i serious think i i was too subtle.......
(I think I am being out sarchasm-ed).
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@kiwiwomble said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@nostrildamus said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@kiwiwomble said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@canefan thats what i was getting at but the sarcasm seems to have been too subtle
On the Fern? Too subtle? As if that ever happened!
no, i seriously think i was too subtle.......
We got it, we just wondered how far you would go. I was going to suggest that Whitelock was next...
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@machpants said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@kiwiwomble said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@nostrildamus said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@kiwiwomble said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@canefan thats what i was getting at but the sarcasm seems to have been too subtle
On the Fern? Too subtle? As if that ever happened!
no, i seriously think i was too subtle.......
We got it, we just wondered how far you would go. I was going to suggest that Whitelock was next...
We should let him think we didn't get it. If being too subtle on TSF (the place where tired memes come to die) is a mark of sophisticated cunning, best let him enjoy that sense of achievement.
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@nostrildamus said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@machpants said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@kiwiwomble said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@nostrildamus said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@kiwiwomble said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@canefan thats what i was getting at but the sarcasm seems to have been too subtle
On the Fern? Too subtle? As if that ever happened!
no, i seriously think i was too subtle.......
We got it, we just wondered how far you would go. I was going to suggest that Whitelock was next...
We should let him think we didn't get it. If being too subtle on TSF (the place where tired memes come to die) is a mark of sophisticated cunning, best let him enjoy that sense of achievement.
Now I feel like I've slapped a little baby panda.
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@machpants said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@nostrildamus said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@machpants said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@kiwiwomble said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@nostrildamus said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@kiwiwomble said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
@canefan thats what i was getting at but the sarcasm seems to have been too subtle
On the Fern? Too subtle? As if that ever happened!
no, i seriously think i was too subtle.......
We got it, we just wondered how far you would go. I was going to suggest that Whitelock was next...
We should let him think we didn't get it. If being too subtle on TSF (the place where tired memes come to die) is a mark of sophisticated cunning, best let him enjoy that sense of achievement.
Now I feel like I've slapped a little baby panda.
Don't feel sorry for me, we have the biggest enclosures and the best international matchmakers.
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@mariner4life said in Foster, Robertson, Other Options etc:
To be fair, from our 2nd try right up until the intercept i thought we would win on Sunday.
The week before we were a couple of degrees on a forward pass from winning.
Our loss to SA was a very late penalty (so was our win to be fair)
so for all our wailing and gnashing of teeth, and issues we can all see, a couple of better moments from players and we are unbeaten all year.
Isn't that the source of the frustration, though? That despite being soundly beaten in pure rugby terms, we were still close on the scoreboard. Which makes one think how good we could be if we were well-coached and selected.
