All Blacks - New Coach Selection
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@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks - New Coach Selection:
I'm not as worried about lead in time
Razor had more than a year between his last Super game coached and his first AB game as coach and it was certainly not apparent.
that's not really a strong counter argument though is it?
@nostrildamus said in All Blacks - New Coach Selection:
@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks - New Coach Selection:
I'm not as worried about lead in time
Razor had more than a year between his last Super game coached and his first AB game as coach and it was certainly not apparent.
that's not really a strong counter argument though is it?
Let me put it another way
It's not how much lead in time you have.
It's what you do with your lead in time.
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@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks - New Coach Selection:
I'm not as worried about lead in time
Razor had more than a year between his last Super game coached and his first AB game as coach and it was certainly not apparent.
@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks - New Coach Selection:
I'm not as worried about lead in time
Razor had more than a year between his last Super game coached and his first AB game as coach and it was certainly not apparent.
That's a point that bears repeating.
@Frank said in All Blacks - New Coach Selection:
@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks - New Coach Selection:
I'm not as worried about lead in time
Razor had more than a year between his last Super game coached and his first AB game as coach and it was certainly not apparent.
@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks - New Coach Selection:
I'm not as worried about lead in time
Razor had more than a year between his last Super game coached and his first AB game as coach and it was certainly not apparent.
That's a point that bears repeating.
You can say that again.....
Anyway, I don't think timings are key - much more important to get the new coach and his team right. That can be done in a way that doesn't stiff any SR side.
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@Dan54 I hear ya. But why not utilise some of the available IP. He can teach the new captain how to captain, for example. Lead the players in establishing standards so the coach can focus on game planning. Could actually result in fewer voices instead of having a leadership group with 7 included.
@game_film said in All Blacks - New Coach Selection:
@Dan54 I hear ya. But why not utilise some of the available IP. He can teach the new captain how to captain, for example. Lead the players in establishing standards so the coach can focus on game planning. Could actually result in fewer voices instead of having a leadership group with 7 included.
Well they had almost 7 when he was captain from what I recall.
But genuinely not keen on pulling out people from past. It time we moved on, and although Richie was a great captain, he was a great captain of a team that played 11 years ago, I understand your point, but I will say again, I agree with @victor-meldrew, and I think it would be go with less is more for management. -
@game_film said in All Blacks - New Coach Selection:
@Dan54 I hear ya. But why not utilise some of the available IP. He can teach the new captain how to captain, for example. Lead the players in establishing standards so the coach can focus on game planning. Could actually result in fewer voices instead of having a leadership group with 7 included.
Well they had almost 7 when he was captain from what I recall.
But genuinely not keen on pulling out people from past. It time we moved on, and although Richie was a great captain, he was a great captain of a team that played 11 years ago, I understand your point, but I will say again, I agree with @victor-meldrew, and I think it would be go with less is more for management.@Dan54 said in All Blacks - New Coach Selection:
@game_film said in All Blacks - New Coach Selection:
@Dan54 I hear ya. But why not utilise some of the available IP. He can teach the new captain how to captain, for example. Lead the players in establishing standards so the coach can focus on game planning. Could actually result in fewer voices instead of having a leadership group with 7 included.
Well they had almost 7 when he was captain from what I recall.
But genuinely not keen on pulling out people from past. It time we moved on, and although Richie was a great captain, he was a great captain of a team that played 11 years ago, I understand your point, but I will say again, I agree with @victor-meldrew, and I think it would be go with less is more for management.look, I generally agree with you that looking to the past isn't great.
But this is Richie Fucking McCaw. The GOAT of the sport. The toughest mentally I have ever seen. He talks, you listen, you take fucking notes and you put the fucking playstation controller down and start wearing black boots and saying 'sir' to your seniors.
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@nostrildamus said in All Blacks - New Coach Selection:
@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks - New Coach Selection:
I'm not as worried about lead in time
Razor had more than a year between his last Super game coached and his first AB game as coach and it was certainly not apparent.
that's not really a strong counter argument though is it?
Let me put it another way
It's not how much lead in time you have.
It's what you do with your lead in time.
@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks - New Coach Selection:
Let me put it another way
It's not how much lead in time you have.
It's what you do with your lead in time.
Yes that sounds right.
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@Frank said in All Blacks - New Coach Selection:
@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks - New Coach Selection:
I'm not as worried about lead in time
Razor had more than a year between his last Super game coached and his first AB game as coach and it was certainly not apparent.
@KiwiMurph said in All Blacks - New Coach Selection:
I'm not as worried about lead in time
Razor had more than a year between his last Super game coached and his first AB game as coach and it was certainly not apparent.
That's a point that bears repeating.
You can say that again.....
Anyway, I don't think timings are key - much more important to get the new coach and his team right. That can be done in a way that doesn't stiff any SR side.
@Victor-Meldrew said in All Blacks - New Coach Selection:
That can be done in a way that doesn't stiff any SR side.
I dont care about SR, and neither does NZR.
They dont think twice about pulling players from the comp (including right now), cant see why they'd treat a coach any different to a player. -
How much AB coaching will a head coach do during the Super season, I wouldn't think he would even select a team till right at the end.
I think it would be fine to do both this year, if JJ is selected. He would have assistants to do all the leg work anyway.
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More about having time to properly watch and analyse all the games while not being preoccupied with leading a team to glory.
Regardless, wouldn't hurt to have a bit of separation between Joseph and the Highlanders before he has to start selecting his team, just to minimise (perceptions of) bias.
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More about having time to properly watch and analyse all the games while not being preoccupied with leading a team to glory.
Regardless, wouldn't hurt to have a bit of separation between Joseph and the Highlanders before he has to start selecting his team, just to minimise (perceptions of) bias.
@Mr-Fish said in All Blacks - New Coach Selection:
More about having time to properly watch and analyse all the games while not being preoccupied with leading a team to glory.
Regardless, wouldn't hurt to have a bit of separation between Joseph and the Highlanders before he has to start selecting his team, just to minimise (perceptions of) bias.
Fortunately we aren't loaded with superstar talent. There won't be too many opportunities to accuse JJ of picking his boys.
We are only looking at
De Groot
Jim
TangitauAs guys likely guaranteed to make it
With
Withy
Howden
JRK
FakatavaThe outside chances.
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@Mr-Fish said in All Blacks - New Coach Selection:
More about having time to properly watch and analyse all the games while not being preoccupied with leading a team to glory.
Regardless, wouldn't hurt to have a bit of separation between Joseph and the Highlanders before he has to start selecting his team, just to minimise (perceptions of) bias.
Fortunately we aren't loaded with superstar talent. There won't be too many opportunities to accuse JJ of picking his boys.
We are only looking at
De Groot
Jim
TangitauAs guys likely guaranteed to make it
With
Withy
Howden
JRK
FakatavaThe outside chances.
@SouthernMann said in All Blacks - New Coach Selection:
@Mr-Fish said in All Blacks - New Coach Selection:
More about having time to properly watch and analyse all the games while not being preoccupied with leading a team to glory.
Regardless, wouldn't hurt to have a bit of separation between Joseph and the Highlanders before he has to start selecting his team, just to minimise (perceptions of) bias.
Fortunately we aren't loaded with superstar talent. There won't be too many opportunities to accuse JJ of picking his boys.
We are only looking at
De Groot
Jim
TangitauAs guys likely guaranteed to make it
With
Withy
Howden
JRK
FakatavaThe outside chances.
Howden might have a good chance?
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@Mr-Fish said in All Blacks - New Coach Selection:
More about having time to properly watch and analyse all the games while not being preoccupied with leading a team to glory.
Regardless, wouldn't hurt to have a bit of separation between Joseph and the Highlanders before he has to start selecting his team, just to minimise (perceptions of) bias.
Fortunately we aren't loaded with superstar talent. There won't be too many opportunities to accuse JJ of picking his boys.
We are only looking at
De Groot
Jim
TangitauAs guys likely guaranteed to make it
With
Withy
Howden
JRK
FakatavaThe outside chances.
@SouthernMann said in All Blacks - New Coach Selection:
@Mr-Fish said in All Blacks - New Coach Selection:
More about having time to properly watch and analyse all the games while not being preoccupied with leading a team to glory.
Regardless, wouldn't hurt to have a bit of separation between Joseph and the Highlanders before he has to start selecting his team, just to minimise (perceptions of) bias.
Fortunately we aren't loaded with superstar talent. There won't be too many opportunities to accuse JJ of picking his boys.
We are only looking at
De Groot
Jim
TangitauAs guys likely guaranteed to make it
With
Withy
Howden
JRK
FakatavaThe outside chances.
someone will always claim hes playing favs if more than a couple make it and point to the years not long ago where we had what...... one?
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Liam Napier picks Rennie as his candidate.
How good is his sauce normally? I would think it is a bit dangerous to chose one and get it wrong, when you'll be attempting to work with them in the future.
He has always been highly regarded, though. Speaking at the Wairarapa Bush rugby sports award function, Sir Graham Henry bemoaned NZ Rugby letting Rennie go to the Wallabies, stating he should have been All Blacks coach instead of Ian Foster.
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Henry's comments were pretty clear in 2020: https://www.rugby.com.au/news/2020/10/16/bledisloe-cup-graham-henry-says-dave-rennie-should-be-all-blacks-coach-not-ian-foster
But this Napier article, I am not sure if he is hinting at all that he thinks he know something or this is just his preference.
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Liam Napier picks Rennie as his candidate.
How good is his sauce normally? I would think it is a bit dangerous to chose one and get it wrong, when you'll be attempting to work with them in the future.
He has always been highly regarded, though. Speaking at the Wairarapa Bush rugby sports award function, Sir Graham Henry bemoaned NZ Rugby letting Rennie go to the Wallabies, stating he should have been All Blacks coach instead of Ian Foster.
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@gt12 Liam Napier has been saying who he prefers for the past few weeks.
I think his two points are strong.
- Rennie has the superior overall record.
- Rennie is a superior man manager to Joseph
@Frank said in All Blacks - New Coach Selection:
@gt12 Liam Napier has been saying who he prefers for the past few weeks.
I think his two points are strong.
- Rennie has the superior overall record.
- Rennie is a superior man manager to Joseph
Actually at test rugby JJ's record is stronger as Rennie coached Wallabies to their worst ever record. Though I don't take lot of notice of that, and no idea of either's man management.
But Napier like any of us can select any points that works to push the case of who he prefers. -
@Frank said in All Blacks - New Coach Selection:
@gt12 Liam Napier has been saying who he prefers for the past few weeks.
I think his two points are strong.
- Rennie has the superior overall record.
- Rennie is a superior man manager to Joseph
Actually at test rugby JJ's record is stronger as Rennie coached Wallabies to their worst ever record. Though I don't take lot of notice of that, and no idea of either's man management.
But Napier like any of us can select any points that works to push the case of who he prefers.@Dan54 said in All Blacks - New Coach Selection:
@Frank said in All Blacks - New Coach Selection:
@gt12 Liam Napier has been saying who he prefers for the past few weeks.
I think his two points are strong.
- Rennie has the superior overall record.
- Rennie is a superior man manager to Joseph
Actually at test rugby JJ's record is stronger as Rennie coached Wallabies to their worst ever record. Though I don't take lot of notice of that, and no idea of either's man management.
But Napier like any of us can select any points that works to push the case of who he prefers.Rennie doesn't have the worst Aus record of the pro era (that's Jones 22%) Rennie's record is roughly same as Schmidt around 40%.
You're also got to remember Dave essentially built the entire spine of Schmidt's Wallabies - all their most valuable players Bell, Valetini, Frost, Ikitau, McReight, Wilson, McDermott, T.Wright, etc.. were all developed by Rennie (he blooded them all very early, Bell was just 20 years old on debut) after Wallabies lost almost all their senior players post-2019.
Rennie had the biggest rebuild job in Wallabies history, combined with Covid destroying Australian rugby financially (to the point where the game was on the brink of having to revert back to amateur status) I can't think of any Wallabies coach who was subject to worse circumstances than Rennie.
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I think the idea that it takes New Zealand Rugby the best part of two months to pick between the two blokes they were almost certainly considering when they made the call to sack Robertson probably hasn't received enough heat.
They should have identified their candidates, and carried out interviews and a full process within two weeks. It isn't like they didn't know who was available when they made the call. I could understand if there was a delay due to a contracting issue, but the leaks are that they are carrying out a process of some description with Rennie this week. Makes you wonder what they were actually doing in the three weeks after Robertson was sacked.
