All Blacks 2026
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@Chris said in All Blacks 2026:
if Razor is gone sacked on player power.The next coach has a hell of a job as he will be run by the Senior players
That is a disaster the tail wagging the dog has never worked what happens if the players dont like the next coach.
Looks like the players are going to coach themselves and are untouchable, selections become a closed shop on their say so no mates getting dropped at any time.Certain players will be bigger than the game that should never happen.
Player Power brings a lot of teams down and they never come back.
If certain players are not sent packing with the coaches NZR are on a dog lead on certain players whims.That's easily addressed when it comes to selecting the very next squad.
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@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks 2026:
If i'm honest i'm pleased that there's people in ABs that care enough to deliver honest feedback and at NZR that are bold enough to pull the trigger.
Well done David Kirk, Keven Mealamu etc
I hope most of the details are made public too. It's in NZR's best interest to explain how bad the environment was
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@Darren said in All Blacks 2026:
I'd get rid of Ryan as well, we had the Blues loose forwards, which were totally dominating, and not a single one makes the AB's, something suspicious was happening there. Unless that was Razors call.
Totally dominating the one year the crusaders lost Robinson and got bitched the few years before as well? Forgive me if I’m not incredibly excited at the thought of that
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@jimmyb said in All Blacks 2026:
@sparky said in All Blacks 2026:
Dancing for joy if I'm honest.
So glad the fraud got his comeuppance.
Why are you dancing for joy? This is going to destroy NZ rugby for the foreseeable future. There is no obvious choice and it’s ignoring the rot that’s been there for 8-9 years. Unless most of the players group goes with him, this is for naught
The razor coaching group was already destroying nz rugby for the foreseeable future. Change had to be made.
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Seems all news media in on the secret, bar Stuff.
Think they need to get thier reporters TSF logins.
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@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks 2026:
@jimmyb said in All Blacks 2026:
@sparky said in All Blacks 2026:
Dancing for joy if I'm honest.
So glad the fraud got his comeuppance.
Why are you dancing for joy? This is going to destroy NZ rugby for the foreseeable future. There is no obvious choice and it’s ignoring the rot that’s been there for 8-9 years. Unless most of the players group goes with him, this is for naught
The razor coaching group was already destroying nz rugby for the foreseeable future. Change had to be made.
Yes and Ardie and B Barrett were destroying it before that. Nothing changes unless they go
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I feel genuinely sorry for all the Robertson-fluffers who jumped on the bandwagon. They must feel like utter dickheads right now. Guess the knives will be out if they feel they've been conned by Surf Jesus.
Just hope we haven't entered into another "sack-the-coach" doom-loop and Kirk and co. make sure the sort of shit we've seem in the last 4-6 years isn't repeated.
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Here’s an interesting question.
Were performances on the field below par because Razor didn’t have the dressing room OR did Razor lose the dressing room because results were sub par.
You wonder whether some players felt ostracised from the get-go as the Crusaders coaching staff rolled in? Perhaps Razor was always doomed to fail with that coaching group, and I don’t think that reflects on the man himself but on NZR for once again not doing due-diligence on the assistants.
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@Kirwan said in All Blacks 2026:
@jimmyb said in All Blacks 2026:
Unless a few players are axed as well, this will be for absolutely nothing
Fish rots from the head.
If you think the rot wasn’t there way before Robinson, you’re taking the piss
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@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks 2026:
This was a clownshow that has been exposed and rightly moved on
Razor burnt a lot of goodwill with his baffling selections, but I was utterly done with it once we found out he wasn't actually the head coach - just a grossly overpaid motivator.
And in that limited capacity he's been proven to be an abject failure. Kudos to Kirk for taking the hard, necessary decision.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks 2026:
I feel genuinely sorry for all the Robertson-fluffers who jumped on the bandwagon. They must feel like utter dickheads right now. Guess the knives will be out if they feel they've been conned by Surf Jesus.
Just hope we haven't entered into another "sack-the-coach" doom-loop and Kirk and co. make sure the sort of shit we've seem in the last 4-6 years isn't repeated.
Seriously?
I’m no cantab fan, quite the opposite but his pedigree at the Crusaders showed he deserved it.
Having said that, if he couldn’t gel together a team from other provinces to play for him then it’s an issue which needs resolving.
You don’t give up when playing the Boks if you want to win for your coach.
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@jimmyb said in All Blacks 2026:
@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks 2026:
@jimmyb said in All Blacks 2026:
@sparky said in All Blacks 2026:
Dancing for joy if I'm honest.
So glad the fraud got his comeuppance.
Why are you dancing for joy? This is going to destroy NZ rugby for the foreseeable future. There is no obvious choice and it’s ignoring the rot that’s been there for 8-9 years. Unless most of the players group goes with him, this is for naught
The razor coaching group was already destroying nz rugby for the foreseeable future. Change had to be made.
Yes and Ardie and B Barrett were destroying it before that. Nothing changes unless they go
Well they came within a whisker of winning the world cup so it wasnt all bad before Razor but yes I take your general point
