Foster, Robertson etc
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@Stargazer maybe Mark Robinson really has been the head coach all along ...
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@Stargazer said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:
@Victor-Meldrew I think there would be a meltdown on the Fern straight away if Robinson was appointed Head Coach.
Robertson on the hand ....
I should have called him Razor the Saviour to avoid any confusion or misunderstanding...
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:
@Stargazer said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:
@Victor-Meldrew I think there would be a meltdown on the Fern straight away if Robinson was appointed Head Coach.
Robertson on the hand ....
I should have called him Razor the Saviour to avoid any confusion or misunderstanding...
I like it Razor the saviour
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@Victor-Meldrew Mmm.. can you confirm where you got this information from? Razor's "seemingly all-or-nothing demands and refusing to become an Assistant Coach". Not having a go but, bugger me, they are hell of assumptions.
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Vic on what basis?
If I was Razor I wouldn't put my name down as assistant.
I wouldn't put my name down as captain either.
The top tier needs sorting.The next 6 weeks is going to be super interesting. Hope the Fern server has plenty of HD space
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:
@Chester-Draws said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:
I half expect Foster to move on, but Robertson to not be appointed. That has been, after all, the NZR way for decades now.
I suspect Robinson's seemingly all-or-nothing demands and refusing to become an Assistant Coach hasn't played well with NZR and they have concerns about his being a team player. It's poor optics for the public as well.
But then, imagine the meltdown on here if Robertson
Robinsonis appointed over and we get a repeat his 2016 U20 "success"...That anti Razor drum you keep beating must be getting pretty worn out.
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@Victor-Meldrew 2019 Vic! Here is my assumption which is I believe equally valid. Razor hasn't heard diddly squat from anyone in NZR the entire time. Absolutely nothing. The only information he has is from friends like MacDonald and Ryan who are keeping him up to date as to their own movements.
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@pukunui said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:
That anti Razor drum you keep beating must be getting pretty worn out.
Que?
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Vic your memory is still in good shape
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@Victor-Meldrew why would Razor want to be assistant coach to somebody with a worse record? Anyway that was 2019. Considering 2 assistant coaches just lost their jobs and likely ever chance to be head AB coach I'd say he was on the money. Not being a team player? Don't think I have heard such murmurs from either the Crusaders or coaches who worked with him!
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:
Any source more recent? I know there is lots of talk, but do we even know if Robinson and Razor have been in contact?
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@nostrildamus said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:
@Victor-Meldrew why would Razor want to be assistant coach to somebody with a worse record? Anyway that was 2019. Considering 2 assistant coaches just lost their jobs and likely ever chance to be head AB coach I'd say he was on the money. Not being a team player? Don't think I have heard such murmurs from either the Crusaders or coaches who worked with him!
Bloody hell. I wasn't attacking him or anyone else - I was simply making the point that perhaps Razor The Saviour publicly saying he didn't want an Assistant role, and it was all or nothing, didn't go down well with the head honcho's of NZR at the time. They might have seen him and continue to see him - rightly or wrongly - as not a team player. Just an observation.
But if you're right, and he wouldn't work with anyone he sees as inferior to him, then how would that play with the NZR chieftains do you think?
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@canefan said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:
Any source more recent? I know there is lots of talk, but do we even know if Robinson and Razor have been in contact?
No. I was just opining that maybe the NZR Demigods may have been pissed off with his all-or-nothing approach and he's in their bad books.
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So Razor missed out on the job because he had an inferior assistant coaching line up (at least, that was the public excuse, he realistically missed out on it due to cronyism and conservatism at NZR).
Razor's assistant coaching lineup was: Ryan, McDonald, McLeod, Holland.
50% of those are now in Foster's team with McDonald also heavily rumoured to be joining after the SA tour too...
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@kiwi_expat said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:
McLeod
Was he Robertson's defence coach?
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@Victor-Meldrew Robinson was praising Razor in the media last year. Nb I am NOT saying Razor wouldn't work as assistant coach (and that 3 year old article seemed to extrapolate wildly here) - I am asking why would or should he?
I have no direct line to him or to NZR. I am not even a Crusaders fan!
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"Robertson told the interview panel that his assistants would be All Blacks defence coach Scott McLeod, who had worked under Sir Steve Hansen since late 2017 and is now in Foster's group, Blues head coach Leon MacDonald, Crusaders forwards coach Jason Ryan and Hurricanes assistant (now head coach) Jason Holland."
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@kiwi_expat said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:
"Robertson told the interview panel that his assistants would be All Blacks defence coach Scott McLeod, who had worked under Sir Steve Hansen since late 2017 and is now in Foster's group, Blues head coach Leon MacDonald, Crusaders forwards coach Jason Ryan and Hurricanes assistant (now head coach) Jason Holland."
Tks. Interesting that McLeod was first choice for D in both camps, then.
