Foster, Robertson etc
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@canefan said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:
@DaGrubster said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:
yup I know.
actually I do think it is saying a lot.
Ireland have been lauded as a very good rugby side - which they are no doubt about it.
But because of the 2 losses and the nature of the losses, we have forgotten what we did in that first test. we scored 6 tries and beat them by 20 points.
Yes, Ireland had lots of possession that game and did some good things but were well beaten in that first match.
It does show that there is a team there but they are not being utilised properly.
Maybe i am a little too optimistic (which is ironic because the only time I have been on the fern recently is to vent!!) but I do believe that there can be a lot of improvements in this AB squad (on and off the field) with bteer leadership.
I'm also convinced our lack of good structure and game plan is at the core of our problems. Not bad cattle, although I am sure everyone can agree we don't have 2015 level personnel right now
I agree Canefan, we'll probably never have as many GOATs in one team as we did in 2015, but we have world class players littered throughout our team that other international sides would give anything to have line up for them. Easily enough to be 1 or 2 in the world rankings, there's far too much doom and gloom about our "current crop of players" on here at the moment.
Our current problems revolve around the fact that we have Foster at the helm trying to implement what appears to be the same game plan he was at the Chiefs. From the outside it looks like he is unable to innovate and evolve at all, so at the moment we have a mixture of what Hansen was trying to do in 2016 and what he was doing at the Chiefs, and we are just getting picked off easily by much smarter coaches. The fact we smacked Ireland in the first test is a testament to the brilliance of our best players - we didn't actually play well that game, Ireland played much smarter but got blown off the park by moments of magic.
It's also pretty clear Mark Robinson is way out of his depth as a CEO (has he ever held a CEO position before?) so I'd hope there is some pressure from shareholders etc for a change there.
Robertson would obviously be a big upgrade, but I'd really like to see Schmidt given the reigns and Robertson brought in as an assistant. That would give us one hell of a coaching group, and would give Robertson a pathway to the head coaching position when Schmidt steps aside.
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@No-Quarter said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:
@canefan said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:
@DaGrubster said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:
yup I know.
actually I do think it is saying a lot.
Ireland have been lauded as a very good rugby side - which they are no doubt about it.
But because of the 2 losses and the nature of the losses, we have forgotten what we did in that first test. we scored 6 tries and beat them by 20 points.
Yes, Ireland had lots of possession that game and did some good things but were well beaten in that first match.
It does show that there is a team there but they are not being utilised properly.
Maybe i am a little too optimistic (which is ironic because the only time I have been on the fern recently is to vent!!) but I do believe that there can be a lot of improvements in this AB squad (on and off the field) with bteer leadership.
I'm also convinced our lack of good structure and game plan is at the core of our problems. Not bad cattle, although I am sure everyone can agree we don't have 2015 level personnel right now
I agree Canefan, we'll probably never have as many GOATs in one team as we did in 2015, but we have world class players littered throughout our team that other international sides would give anything to have line up for them. Easily enough to be 1 or 2 in the world rankings, there's far too much doom and gloom about our "current crop of players" on here at the moment.
Our current problems revolve around the fact that we have Foster at the helm trying to implement what appears to be the same game plan he was at the Chiefs. From the outside it looks like he is unable to innovate and evolve at all, so at the moment we have a mixture of what Hansen was trying to do in 2016 and what he was doing at the Chiefs, and we are just getting picked off easily by much smarter coaches. The fact we smacked Ireland in the first test is a testament to the brilliance of our best players - we didn't actually play well that game, Ireland played much smarter but got blown off the park by moments of magic.
It's also pretty clear Mark Robinson is way out of his depth as a CEO (has he ever held a CEO position before?) so I'd hope there is some pressure from shareholders etc for a change there.
Robertson would obviously be a big upgrade, but I'd really like to see Schmidt given the reigns and Robertson brought in as an assistant. That would give us one hell of a coaching group, and would give Robertson a pathway to the head coaching position when Schmidt steps aside.
Completely agree with the assessment of the players. I don't think anyone can deny that we had the players to win the 2003 SF, but very good players were made to look ordinary due to being tactically annihilated. And of course there were certain players playing out of position and that was ruthlessly exploited. I just look back to the start of the 2nd half of the French game last year as evidence that we can fůck shit up if we have to. But that kind of direct and aggressive play seems completely lacking at all other times, particularly at the start of games where we tend to get completely smashed and ship far too many points. Coaching continuity can be great but it can also lead to hubris, and by christ haven't we seen enough of that in the past few years.
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@No-Quarter said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:
It's also pretty clear Mark Robinson is way out of his depth as a CEO (has he ever held a CEO position before?) so I'd hope there is some pressure from shareholders etc for a change there.
CEO of Taranaki for 5 years, on NZR Board for 7 years prior to this job.
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@DaGrubster said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:
I was trying to show I was referring to your avatar and not you as a person. Clearly didn’t do it very well!
You have contributed a lot to the thread and offered a different point of view than most who are ready to burn Foster at the stake.
You quite rightly state their are lots of issues in Nz rugby and a new coach won’t fix those or necessarily did all the problems with the All Blacks.
I might be paraphrasing but You argued that because foster has lost 2 games in a row then that should be the years stuck for the new coach. Which is seriously flawed.
Foster has underwhelmed as AB coach since his first test match in charge which he was lucky to draw against an Oz side that selected its players from the teams that were routinely put to the sword by Nz super teams. But he was lucky to come out with a draw.
Unfortunately, he has dragged the ABs down to his level and we are regressing under his leadership - nothing we are doing can be considered world class at international level.
We need to take the ABs in isolation and look to fix the problems of that squad. Arguing that we should stick with the status who as we don’t know that the next guy will be better is just accepting mediocrity and not recognising that we have better talent available to lead the squad.
Taking Fozzie out of the equation should have happened by now imo. Hell, even letting the senior players run the team for a couple of weeks would probably lead to an improvement
The ABs have regressed since the 2016 EOYT. To say Fozzie hasn't had enough time to turn things around is absurd. 6 years he's been involved and the team is going backwards. 6 years of average results is more than enough to phuck this guy off.
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@Crucial said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:
At this point of posting there are 1697 posts in this thread saying basically the same thing.
Take that as you wish.
Venting takes time. I'd like to know how many posts there were on the 2007 RWC QF match thread....
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Could go in a few threads, basically taken what has been written elsewhere
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@canefan said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:
@Crucial said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:
At this point of posting there are 1697 posts in this thread saying basically the same thing.
Take that as you wish.
Venting takes time. I'd like to know how many posts there were on the 2007 RWC QF match thread....
I joined TSF that night, and I never left 🤯🥺😡🤬
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@canefan said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:
@canefan said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:
@Crucial said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:
At this point of posting there are 1697 posts in this thread saying basically the same thing.
Take that as you wish.
Venting takes time. I'd like to know how many posts there were on the 2007 RWC QF match thread....
I joined TSF that night, and I never left 🤯🥺😡🤬
just when i thought we'd exercised that demon...we find we're still suffering the consequences of that night
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@Kiwiwomble said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:
@canefan said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:
@canefan said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:
@Crucial said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:
At this point of posting there are 1697 posts in this thread saying basically the same thing.
Take that as you wish.
Venting takes time. I'd like to know how many posts there were on the 2007 RWC QF match thread....
I joined TSF that night, and I never left 🤯🥺😡🤬
just when i thought we'd exercised that demon...we find we're still suffering the consequences of that night
Long covid19 has got nothing on Long Cardiff07
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@Crucial said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:
At this point of posting there are 1697 posts in this thread saying basically the same thing.
Take that as you wish.
If we can get this up to 2500 posts we can then submit it to NZR as a petition to get rid of Foster
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@Unite said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:
Could go in a few threads, basically taken what has been written elsewhere
Written by lightweight sports journalist Christy Doran - headline alone is clickbait for a domestic audience..
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@taniwharugby said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:
so how did you guys discuss that back then to get that consensus, send one another letters? 😉 🎣
We used to wait for Terry McLean's new book to come out.
But seriously, in many ways I think there was better analysis in the media at that time than now. Much less, but better quality overall.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:
in many ways I think there was better analysis in the media at that time than now
Even not being alive then, I'd say without a shadow of a doubt it would have been!
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@BerniesCorner said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:
@Victor-Meldrew The arrival of Jones, Zinny, Fitzpatrick and Kirwan was a good time.
Don't want to bang on about my longevity, but the turnaround happened in '77 when, with an totally underpowered pack, we beat the Lions with some of the most intelligent rugby I've seen played.
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The 56 Springbok tour and 71 Lions tour were the stories I heard as a young fella listening to dad and his mates. They had so much respect for the 71 Lions. No disrespect to the 2022 Irish side, who created history, but it does feel it was given to them all a bit too easily.
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@Frank said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:
@Crucial said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:
At this point of posting there are 1697 posts in this thread saying basically the same thing.
Take that as you wish.
We ain't finished with your boy Foster yet.
My boy?
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@Crucial said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:
@Frank said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:
@Crucial said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:
At this point of posting there are 1697 posts in this thread saying basically the same thing.
Take that as you wish.
We ain't finished with your boy Foster yet.
My boy?
Your son.
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@Old-Samurai-Jack said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:
They had so much respect for the 71 Lions.
Even more for Carwyn James who was arguably the greatest coach Rugby has seen. He utterly changed the way the game was played and you can pretty much trace today's attacking game back to him.
Lions mastermind Carwyn James was a rugby visionary beyond compare | Richard Williams
Triumphant Lions legends Gareth Edwards, Barry John and Willie John McBride hung on the every word of Welsh visionary Carwyn Jamesin 1971
Arrogance and contempt: How All Blacks went from rugby’s kings to a punching bag
