Rennie Sacked, Eddie In!
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@nostrildamus said in Rennie Sacked, Eddie In!:
@MN5 said in Rennie Sacked, Eddie In!:
Nurse: Sir you think every TSF thread is now a secondhand meme thread
Me: Is MN5 stll posting the same memes as RoninWC, just a day later?Fuck, this always happens to me
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@Nepia said in Rennie Sacked, Eddie In!:
@Nevorian said in Rennie Sacked, Eddie In!:
Also 4.5M deal - I thought RA were broke?
Now we know the real reason they were working so hard to get a share of our Super broadcasting money.
Down to their last 4.6 million, perhaps...
This is brilliant for rugby. Eddie knows the EU scene and has a rejected point to prove, England can act all noble and holier than Australia, while Australia can rub their hands together they managed to deport a kiwi. -
@Nevorian said in Rennie Sacked, Eddie In!:
@kiwiinmelb said in Rennie Sacked, Eddie In!:
Will be interesting to watch ,
Cant help but feel it will either go pretty well or shithouse , but not in between ,
Based on the players either warming to his style or fucking hating it
Surely the players are sick of losing and would be prepared to do a few hard yards to improve.
Yeah, coz Rennie wouldn't have made them work hard.
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@booboo said in Rennie Sacked, Eddie In!:
@Nevorian said in Rennie Sacked, Eddie In!:
@kiwiinmelb said in Rennie Sacked, Eddie In!:
Will be interesting to watch ,
Cant help but feel it will either go pretty well or shithouse , but not in between ,
Based on the players either warming to his style or fucking hating it
Surely the players are sick of losing and would be prepared to do a few hard yards to improve.
Yeah, coz Rennie wouldn't have made them work hard.
oh i've seen heaps of guesses that Rennie worked them TOO hard and that's why they were all injured
everything was the kiwis fault
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@mariner4life said in Rennie Sacked, Eddie In!:
@booboo said in Rennie Sacked, Eddie In!:
@Nevorian said in Rennie Sacked, Eddie In!:
@kiwiinmelb said in Rennie Sacked, Eddie In!:
Will be interesting to watch ,
Cant help but feel it will either go pretty well or shithouse , but not in between ,
Based on the players either warming to his style or fucking hating it
Surely the players are sick of losing and would be prepared to do a few hard yards to improve.
Yeah, coz Rennie wouldn't have made them work hard.
oh i've seen heaps of guesses that Rennie worked them TOO hard and that's why they were all injured
everything was the kiwis fault
I blame Deans for Rennie's appointment.
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Well at least this has given us something to talk about.
I feel for Rennie, it always felt like he wasn't far off getting the team really playing well but injuries and the obvious lack of depth just curtailed his plans time and again. I actually had them as a dark horse for the RWC, particularly if they had Quade and Kerevi at 10/12. Eddie will be praying he gets those two fit or he's going to have the same struggles Rennie did.
Eddie is a good coach but his reputation is boosted massively by a couple of RWC wins against the ABs, despite failing to actually win the thing after that.
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@game_film said in Rennie Sacked, Eddie In!:
@KiwiMurph he had a 38% win rate with 20% talent mate. Scooby Doo would have made the spring tour if he had a gold jersey on.
It wasn't just the spring tour (though he did rest a lot of his best players vs Italy and it backfired horrendously).
He's had 3 years.
He lost the series to Eddie Jones' England last year.
He's never come close to winning back the Bledisloe Cup.
A lot of competitive losses in his tenure but that's not going to cut it.
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@No-Quarter said in Rennie Sacked, Eddie In!:
Well at least this has given us something to talk about.
I feel for Rennie, it always felt like he wasn't far off getting the team really playing well but injuries and the obvious lack of depth just curtailed his plans time and again. I actually had them as a dark horse for the RWC, particularly if they had Quade and Kerevi at 10/12. Eddie will be praying he gets those two fit or he's going to have the same struggles Rennie did.
It will be interesting to see if Quade's maturity and redemption story extends to working with Eddie. The Wallabies looked a different team with him playing. Eddie could well benefit from the depth Rennie had to develop.
But the reality is that the Wallabies always had a walk-up start to a semifinal courtesy of the ridiculous draw.
Eddie is a good coach but his reputation is boosted massively by a couple of RWC wins against the ABs, despite failing to actually win the thing after that.
I think he's an excellent coach. Twice he's outcoached his Trans Ta$man counterpart at a RWC. He coached Japan to beat the Springboks. I think this is an astute decision by RA.
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@KiwiMurph said in Rennie Sacked, Eddie In!:
@game_film said in Rennie Sacked, Eddie In!:
@KiwiMurph he had a 38% win rate with 20% talent mate. Scooby Doo would have made the spring tour if he had a gold jersey on.
It wasn't just the spring tour (though he did rest a lot of his best players vs Italy and it backfired horrendously).
He's had 3 years.
He lost the series to Eddie Jones' England last year.
He's never come close to winning back the Bledisloe Cup.
A lot of competitive losses in his tenure but that's not going to cut it.
Confirms the suspicion I harbour that the Chiefs success was a matter of timing and the Professor.
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@NTA said in Rennie Sacked, Eddie In!:
I last had a RWC Semi just before kick off in the 2019 final. I lost that pretty quickly.
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@KiwiMurph All true, but we watch Super Rugby and see the talent at his disposal. It ain’t there. It might be when everyone flies in from Japan/Europe and is fit and healthy, but they’ve played as we would expect them to. They spend from February to October mostly getting slaughtered by NZ teams. Do you think Eddie or anyone else would have done any better since 2019?
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@ACT-Crusader said in Rennie Sacked, Eddie In!:
Not sure if it’s been mentioned in amongst the where will Rennie end up discussion, but
Rugby Australia has ensured that Rennie cannot coach elsewhere. His contract will be paid out but he will be on “gardening leave” for the remainder of the year.
Source? In other settings it is not uncommon, in order to defray costs, and rather than paying out lump sum equivalent to monetary value of unexpired contract, to pay the monthly amount until new job secured.
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@KiwiMurph said in Rennie Sacked, Eddie In!:
They went from a coach with a 38% win rate who just lost to Italy and has never coached at a World Cup to a coach with much more international success including success at 4 different World Cups.
I could see Wallabies making a real run at the RWC this year given their side of the draw and Eddie's intimate knowledge of England and Wales.
Eddie knows fuck all about Wales
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@game_film said in Rennie Sacked, Eddie In!:
If Rennie is precluded from coaching, is he precluded from TV work, I wonder.
I hope not
