Foster, Robertson etc
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@Steve That makes no sense. They can only start 15 and have 8 reserves in each match. Not many games to trial people in lately. France Ireland and South Africa are the weakest of our opponents in the past 7 matches. Maybe NZRU could have been kinder by having matches against lesser opponents or fielding an NZ XV during that sequence. But don't think the AB fans would take kindly to playing second xvs v leading nations like SA and France do.
It's certainly something that hasn't helped. Foster is hellbent on his plan (whatever it is) and is having to try and find the right players to implements while fronting up to the top sides in the world at the moment. You can see how other coaches must have struggled for a number of years when the show was on the other foot.
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Foster doesn't even make sense anymore. He seems detached from reality. I hope it is a front for the media for his sake.
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I wonder what Gatland might be quietly doing ...
Please don't.
There's one coach with a worse record at the Chiefs than Fosterand that's our mate Wazza.Gats at the Chiefs may not have been a success, but I'd take him in a heartbeat over Foster. He knows how to win games at the top level, and gets teams up. You dno't get picked as a multi-Lions coach for nothing.
Given both his approach to the Chiefs role and his results, I'd like to see more of him back in the NZ environment first. Not a stance I'd normally take, but his Chiefs tenure left questions. While I'd also have Gatland as coach instead of Foster, thankfully it isn't a two-choice decision
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@Old-Samurai-Jack said in Foster:
Foster doesn't even make sense anymore. He seems detached from reality. I hope it is a front for the media for his sake.
Yep, something is definitely out of character there. It's either that he knows he's gone and is highly unimpressed at that/the level of heat he's getting, or the pressure is taking a very big toll. I'm hoping for his sake that it's the former.
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@Donsteppa said in Foster:
I wonder what Gatland might be quietly doing ...
Please don't.
There's one coach with a worse record at the Chiefs than Fosterand that's our mate Wazza.Gats at the Chiefs may not have been a success, but I'd take him in a heartbeat over Foster. He knows how to win games at the top level, and gets teams up. You dno't get picked as a multi-Lions coach for nothing.
Given both his approach to the Chiefs role and his results, I'd like to see more of him back in the NZ environment first. Not a stance I'd normally take, but his Chiefs tenure left questions. While I'd also have Gatland as coach instead of Foster, thankfully it isn't a two-choice decision
i think maybe we just need to never hire a chiefs coach for the ABs ever again.
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@mariner4life You'll be upsetting the Mafia twice in a week!
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@mariner4life You'll be upsetting the Mafia twice in a week!
i really won't. Mitchell and Foster are fucking Waikato through and through. We are just forced to coexist with them for half the year.
Nothing the current lad is doing screams next level.
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@mariner4life I am referring to wanting to drop Cane, and McMillan.
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@Donsteppa said in Foster:
I'm sure past posts can be quietly erased
pffft i don't care enough to delete posts. I'll just shamelessly about face and keep walking like nothing ever happened.
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@Old-Samurai-Jack said in Foster:
Foster doesn't even make sense anymore. He seems detached from reality. I hope it is a front for the media for his sake.
To get a bigger payout on his contract by refusing to resign.
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@mariner4life said in Foster:
@Donsteppa said in Foster:
I'm sure past posts can be quietly erased
pffft i don't care enough to delete posts. I'll just shamelessly about face and keep walking like nothing ever happened.
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@Old-Samurai-Jack said in Foster:
Foster doesn't even make sense anymore. He seems detached from reality. I hope it is a front for the media for his sake.
To get a bigger payout on his contract by refusing to resign.
Are you trolling or do you seriously believe that?
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He'll be paid the same regardless. To the end of 2023. There's no way he can demand more, and precious few ways that NZR can pay less.
It's whether he is allowed near the team in that time or not.
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@mariner4life said in Foster:
@Donsteppa said in Foster:
I wonder what Gatland might be quietly doing ...
Please don't.
There's one coach with a worse record at the Chiefs than Fosterand that's our mate Wazza.Gats at the Chiefs may not have been a success, but I'd take him in a heartbeat over Foster. He knows how to win games at the top level, and gets teams up. You dno't get picked as a multi-Lions coach for nothing.
Given both his approach to the Chiefs role and his results, I'd like to see more of him back in the NZ environment first. Not a stance I'd normally take, but his Chiefs tenure left questions. While I'd also have Gatland as coach instead of Foster, thankfully it isn't a two-choice decision
i think maybe we just need to never hire a chiefs coach for the ABs ever again.
No Rennie (or Wayne Smith)??
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@nostrildamus Smith -Canterbury?
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@nostrildamus said in Foster:
@mariner4life said in Foster:
@Donsteppa said in Foster:
I wonder what Gatland might be quietly doing ...
Please don't.
There's one coach with a worse record at the Chiefs than Fosterand that's our mate Wazza.Gats at the Chiefs may not have been a success, but I'd take him in a heartbeat over Foster. He knows how to win games at the top level, and gets teams up. You dno't get picked as a multi-Lions coach for nothing.
Given both his approach to the Chiefs role and his results, I'd like to see more of him back in the NZ environment first. Not a stance I'd normally take, but his Chiefs tenure left questions. While I'd also have Gatland as coach instead of Foster, thankfully it isn't a two-choice decision
i think maybe we just need to never hire a chiefs coach for the ABs ever again.
No Rennie (or Wayne Smith)??
Rennie coaches the Wallabies he is dead to me
Wayne Smith was a shit head coach. He's a Robin not a batman
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I noticed the Allblacks have shoe horned in a test against Japan on October 29th at short notice before the EOYT tour starts proper.
First thing that came into my mind is they wanted to give the new coach another match to gain momentum.
More likely to make up the earnings which the current shit-show is costing them.
The Japan game only allows a certain number of players to get into the right patterns, and under no pressure. A game of Possibles vs Probables would be both higher pressure and give more players a run. But not earn the same amount.
