Foster, Robertson etc
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@Damo said in Foster must go:
@Billy-Tell said in Foster must go:
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@Billy-Tell said in Foster must go:
When was the last time a coach of a major team (all sports) resigned without being pushed/fired??
Did Wayne smith resign?
Of course he did, he has both self awareness and honour
From memory it was more he had self-doubts, no?
I remember the moment when Wayne Smiths tenure ad head coach became untenable.
He was in an interview with Murray Deaker after a defeat and Murray asked him if he was going to continue as All Black coach. Smith said words to the effect of "I am not sure if I want to or should".
He stepped down a while after.
I take it from that He was more comfortable in an assistant role. Big respect to him to be able to identify that.
Greatest AB assistant ever. Not a bad consolation
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Maybe getting Schmidt on board was a sign NZR saw this coming and the wheels are/were in motion for when this happened.
Haha, NZR with foresight...
I see nothing in the media about any special pressers...
When does Fozzie name his TRC squad, guess they have until that squad needs to be named to make the decision...
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@canefan said in Will Foster go?:
@Damo said in Will Foster go?:
I think he will go.
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NZR have some cash floating around as a result of Silverlake deal. If Foster needs a golden handshake he can get one.
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Having sold part of their commercial arm they are now accountable to their investment partners - morally if not legally.
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It's just too obvious that Foster is not the man for the job. Anyone can see that now. Razor on the other hand has an extraordinary record.
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Foster is unlikely to want to continue given all the vitriol that is coming his way now.
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Plumtree was shell shocked in his half time interview which was a terrible look.
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NZR have been here before in 1998. They made.the wrong call that year and won't again.
Wait, did the NZRFU accept the Silverlake deal?!?
I think so, unless I am imagining things.
Google search confirms it was accepted. Not sure of timings though in terms of money changing hands, but that hardly matters.
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Another thing ill add which I think hasn't helped is these Japan sabbaticals.
Adds to the temporary feel of the team . Lads fucking off for a year or two, their replacements not knowing if they own the jersey or are keeping it warm. The incumbents coming back underdone and or shadows of their former selves.
If you want to leave and make easy money in Japan, fuck off and don't come back.
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@Tim said in Foster must go:
I'd really like to think it means something. But the cynic in me thinks the comms team are just working on some "holding lines"...
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@canefan the one from last night (was listening to it this morning) I think the first question was about his.coaching.and he said he only wanted to talk about the game (which was fair enough, even if he knew that was all they will want to talk about)
He sounded broken though.
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@canefan said in Foster must go:
@Tim said in Foster must go:
They don't want him to field a flood of questions about quitting
Not while he is negotiating terms of surrender anyway.
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Rugby: When you accept mediocrity, this is what happens
Analysis - An attitude of mediocrity has got the All Blacks to where they are now: losing four of their last five tests and a solid case for the worst All Black side ever, Jamie Wall writes.
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@MrDenmore said in Foster must go:
Sounds to me like the lawyers are arguing over the wording of the resignation statement and contract cancellation
Yep. Very plausible.
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That article above was good reading.
I think obviously the current coaching team has to bear some of the blame - there is a lot of talent there and making it all point in the same direction is their fucking job, really. Not like basic skills are lacking.
However, I think in a way Steve Hansen got the golden spot, but was also part of the problem. He was given a very good core of hard-nosed players and just had to make sure things ticked along. IMHO during that time, a form of arrogance entered the AB culture (moreso at the player level, not the management) that was based on the fact that they were winning games simply by scoring more than the opposition.
Sounds obvious, but when your entire game plan is "Beaudy puts in a kick that bounces 40cm from touch then snaps back straight into his hands 5m laterally for him to score" you're going to struggle at some point. When you can recover a deficit simply by scoring a couple of quick tries off individual talent, it masks the defensive issues that may have forced you into that situation.
I equate it to the Wallabies around the turn of the century: when your back line is that fucking good, finding great props in a barely-contested scrum environment isn't a priority.
We can talk all we want about who has the better players, but who has the better team is more important in a team sport. Duh.
"We shouldn't lose to Ireland" is actually problematic thinking.
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@NTA said in Foster must go:
"We shouldn't ose to Ireland" is actually problematic thinking.
Rught now we are looking for ways not to lose, rather than how can we win.
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@taniwharugby said in Foster must go:
@NTA said in Foster must go:
"We shouldn't ose to Ireland" is actually problematic thinking.
Rught now we are looking for ways not to lose, rather than how can we win.
I think it is a scale of extremes, formed by the rugby culture from top to bottom when it comes to the ABs:
Winning is expected. Winning is usually fairly easy - particularly the decade after RWC2007 when the line was drawn in the sand.
As a result, any loss is met by denial ("you weren't better, we just played shit") or excuses (e.g. Barret's red card in Perth), and an almost childish urge to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
There isn't much room in the middle for rational thought. Just my observation.
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@NTA Partially right in your observations but we at least can now acknowledge and (almost) accept when we get beaten by better teams on the day eg England tonking the ABs in the last World Cup. What sticks in the craw more than anything is the continual usage of gameplans that have been proven not to work. In times past if things weren't working you had astute rugby brains (Graham Mourie just as one example) on the field that could see that and changed things accordingly. Nowadays Captains seem to rely solely on the instructions coming down via radio from the coaches box and conveyed by the water runners.
Surely players on the field have better "feeling" on how opposition players and tactics are working and can sense minute things like marginal dropping off in speed levels of players as they every so slightly tire much better than the bank of computers that coaches seem to place 100% faith in can ever do. Ditto for members of their own team. -
I wonder if we will see any players come out in support of Foster over the next few days/weeks?
