Foster, Robertson etc
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that article about Foster not being saked is fucking awful from a number of levels
First, that sounds like a fucking shambles of a set up. One guy is going to fix everything. Not be y being in charge, but just by being there? Meanwhile everyone stays, but the reporting lines get blurry.
This is not what a high performance orientated organisation should do. Those that follow the Premier League (and AFL and league for that matter) could point to all sorts of high profile clubs that have brought in "Directors of Football". And it has done nothing for the onfield stuff while the coach is still blatantly not up to standard.
This is being seen to do something while doing nothing at all. And i get the feeling that's because being drastic is "not the All Black way" as if we are just better than everyone else. Everyone at NZ Rugby is resting on their fucking laurels.
Also, i take issue with this
"The obvious standout leader is Sam Whitelock, the most experienced All Black. Not only is he calm in a crisis"
Now Sam is experienced, isn't playing terribly (but not exactly setting the house on fire either. But Sam is prone to a pressure-relieving penalty caused by a brain explosion. It's all very well and good to point out every single thing Cane got wrong on Saturday. it's not cool to ignore everyone else because you can then make a case for a guy you like.@mariner4life said in Foster must go:
that article about Foster not being saked is fucking awful from a number of levels
First, that sounds like a fucking shambles of a set up. One guy is going to fix everything. Not be y being in charge, but just by being there? Meanwhile everyone stays, but the reporting lines get blurry.
This is not what a high performance orientated organisation should do. Those that follow the Premier League (and AFL and league for that matter) could point to all sorts of high profile clubs that have brought in "Directors of Football". And it has done nothing for the onfield stuff while the coach is still blatantly not up to standard.
This is being seen to do something while doing nothing at all. And i get the feeling that's because being drastic is "not the All Black way" as if we are just better than everyone else. Everyone at NZ Rugby is resting on their fucking laurels.
Also, i take issue with this
"The obvious standout leader is Sam Whitelock, the most experienced All Black. Not only is he calm in a crisis"
Now Sam is experienced, isn't playing terribly (but not exactly setting the house on fire either. But Sam is prone to a pressure-relieving penalty caused by a brain explosion. It's all very well and good to point out every single thing Cane got wrong on Saturday. it's not cool to ignore everyone else because you can then make a case for a guy you like.It would allow us to go the full Wales in black jerseys though. We’d just need to select Ardie, Blackadder, Papalii on the flanks.
Is Reece enough of a midget to be our talismanic ‘game breaker’?
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i want a jurno to have the courage to call fozzie out too his face, he cant keep claiming any kind of loyalty to NZR if hes' going to make them pay him out, negotiate a smaller payout to the end of the year, time to find another job...and go
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@Chris-B Still got 150 posts to read to catch up, but can't proceed without commenting on your JJ Stewart points.
After the Vodanovich / Duff eras JJ revolutionised AB rugby. Cleared out the dead wood and changed the culture and attacking ethos of the team. Much like what is needed today.
It is true that we suffered from a lack of a reliable kicker but even more so from dirty fucking cheating Saffa refs. Which is why fans of a certain age will always hate losing to SA more than anyone else.
You are spot on with Vodanovich though. The parallels with Fozzie are quite stark. Only got the job because he served his time and was sort of last man standing. Took over from an iconic coach who had dome it all. Inherited a team with (more that) a few players in decline. Sounds like he was a genuine nice guy, but had no fucking clue.
Then when this was apparent to everyone after the 70 tour the fish heads at NZRFU (as was) reappointed him for the Lions tour.....
@dogmeat That 1970 tour is the first one I have any memory of. And it's pretty much just Bryan Williams being a star. I can remember a bit more about the 71 Lions, because I was a year older. I've only read about Vodanovich.
By 76 I can recall Referee Gert Bezeudenhuit without needing to refer to any books. The Bruce Robertson penalty try... a pass bouncing over Kit Fawcett's shoulder to a centre who ran like a gazelle!!! Oosthuizen??!!
It's interesting how far coaching and tactics have come though - in 1976, we still didn't fully appreciate how vital a good kicker was (despite years of benefiting from Don Clarke). The story behind Colin Farrell's selection - amateur footy!
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i just finished the book "The 100 Year War" and it's nice to know exactly what you guys are talking about
filthy cheating saffas
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@Frank said in Foster must go:
@Tim said in Foster must go:
Sounds pretty certain. Shit.
What a shit show,Right off 2022 and 2023 hopefully then we get a proper coaching group in.
By 2024 a few players would have taken their overseas pension fund and we can start a fresh,and hopefully some of the Board are gone due to this mess they have created.
We just have to sit through 18 months of bad results,Heaps of BS and some painful frustrating rugby to watch.
And apparently another learning curve when ever we lose.These coaches must have learn't a shit load in the last 2 years due to all these learnings.:confounded_face: -
@Smuts said in Foster must go:
The forces of light, truth and Justice need a worthy nemesis
we do
It's Hawkes Bay. And they have our Shield the thieving fuckers
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@Frank said in Foster must go:
@Tim said in Foster must go:
Sounds pretty certain. Shit.
What a shit show,Right off 2022 and 2023 hopefully then we get a proper coaching group in.
By 2024 a few players would have taken their overseas pension fund and we can start a fresh,and hopefully some of the Board are gone due to this mess they have created.
We just have to sit through 18 months of bad results,Heaps of BS and some painful frustrating rugby to watch.
And apparently another learning curve when ever we lose.These coaches must have learn't a shit load in the last 2 years due to all these learnings.:confounded_face:@Chris said in Foster must go:
@Frank said in Foster must go:
@Tim said in Foster must go:
Sounds pretty certain. Shit.
What a shit show,Right off 2022 and 2023 hopefully then we get a proper coaching group in.
By 2024 a few players would have taken their overseas pension fund and we can start a fresh,and hopefully some of the Board are gone due to this mess they have created.
We just have to sit through 18 months of bad results,Heaps of BS and some painful frustrating rugby to watch.
And apparently another learning curve when ever we lose.These coaches must have learn't a shit load in the last 2 years due to all these learnings.:confounded_face:PhD level mate. They should be geniuses in failure by the end of 2022
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@Chris said in Foster must go:
@Frank said in Foster must go:
@Tim said in Foster must go:
Sounds pretty certain. Shit.
What a shit show,Right off 2022 and 2023 hopefully then we get a proper coaching group in.
By 2024 a few players would have taken their overseas pension fund and we can start a fresh,and hopefully some of the Board are gone due to this mess they have created.
We just have to sit through 18 months of bad results,Heaps of BS and some painful frustrating rugby to watch.
And apparently another learning curve when ever we lose.These coaches must have learn't a shit load in the last 2 years due to all these learnings.:confounded_face:PhD level mate. They should be geniuses in failure by the end of 2022
@canefan said in Foster must go:
@Chris said in Foster must go:
@Frank said in Foster must go:
@Tim said in Foster must go:
Sounds pretty certain. Shit.
What a shit show,Right off 2022 and 2023 hopefully then we get a proper coaching group in.
By 2024 a few players would have taken their overseas pension fund and we can start a fresh,and hopefully some of the Board are gone due to this mess they have created.
We just have to sit through 18 months of bad results,Heaps of BS and some painful frustrating rugby to watch.
And apparently another learning curve when ever we lose.These coaches must have learn't a shit load in the last 2 years due to all these learnings.:confounded_face:PhD level mate. They should be geniuses in failure by the end of 2022
Taking it to a new Level.
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@mariner4life you spelt The Bulls wrong…
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@dogmeat That 1970 tour is the first one I have any memory of. And it's pretty much just Bryan Williams being a star. I can remember a bit more about the 71 Lions, because I was a year older. I've only read about Vodanovich.
By 76 I can recall Referee Gert Bezeudenhuit without needing to refer to any books. The Bruce Robertson penalty try... a pass bouncing over Kit Fawcett's shoulder to a centre who ran like a gazelle!!! Oosthuizen??!!
It's interesting how far coaching and tactics have come though - in 1976, we still didn't fully appreciate how vital a good kicker was (despite years of benefiting from Don Clarke). The story behind Colin Farrell's selection - amateur footy!
@Chris-B Poor Colin Farrell consistently picked as worst AB ever - which I don't think he was.
He was a fan favourite for Akl carving it up from fullback. So he's picked as a running fullback (as a green 21 year old) and gets the ball once in two tests!!!
Ironically IIRC he wasn't a bad kicker for Akl but the AB's decided to use BeeGee (coz that worked well in SA)and Going.
The worse decision was picking Kit - I expect to score more off the field than on it - Fawcett in 76
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@Chris-B Poor Colin Farrell consistently picked as worst AB ever - which I don't think he was.
He was a fan favourite for Akl carving it up from fullback. So he's picked as a running fullback (as a green 21 year old) and gets the ball once in two tests!!!
Ironically IIRC he wasn't a bad kicker for Akl but the AB's decided to use BeeGee (coz that worked well in SA)and Going.
The worse decision was picking Kit - I expect to score more off the field than on it - Fawcett in 76
@dogmeat said in Foster must go:
@Chris-B Poor Colin Farrell consistently picked as worst AB ever - which I don't think he was.
He was a fan favourite for Akl carving it up from fullback. So he's picked as a running fullback (as a green 21 year old) and gets the ball once in two tests!!!
Ironically IIRC he wasn't a bad kicker for Akl but the AB's decided to use BeeGee (coz that worked well in SA)and Going.
The worse decision was picking Kit - I expect to score more off the field than on it - Fawcett in 76
He ran a bit hot and cold
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@Smuts said in Foster must go:
The forces of light, truth and Justice need a worthy nemesis
we do
It's Hawkes Bay. And they have our Shield the thieving fuckers
@mariner4life LETS GO POVERTY BAY.
Calling on the spirit of the famous 74 team that beat Hawkes Bay. Any brothers playing for Poverty Bay these days?
The funny thing about calling off the presser is that it’s not as if fans were going to crash these largely staged events and ask the hard hitting questions.
We may have seen a couple of questions but I’m guessing they would hardly be that difficult to answer:
- should you resign?
- the team isn’t clicking, what’s going on?
- the gameplan to kick when on attack in their half, what’s going on there?
- the things that you worked on in training during the week, did they happen out there?
- will be there major changes to the squad given this series loss?
- the players that didn’t feature in the Irish series, will we see them at in the RC?
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I can handle the shit show to continue until the end of the year, if it's absolutely certain that Razor can take over in the new year with the coaching team he wants. Just meet all his demands. Sign him up until 2027 RWC, whatever. Just as long as it is a clean break from what we have now, and not half-arsed changes.
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I can handle the shit show to continue until the end of the year, if it's absolutely certain that Razor can take over in the new year with the coaching team he wants. Just meet all his demands. Sign him up until 2027 RWC, whatever. Just as long as it is a clean break from what we have now, and not half-arsed changes.
@Stargazer i'd still prefer it before the EOYT...then he can experiment on that and then spend all next year building
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@BerniesCorner said in Foster must go:
Over at Stuff
"Mark Reason: The fishheads who are stinking out the All Blacks"
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/all-blacks/300640271/mark-reason-the-fishheads-who-are-stinking-out-the-all-blacksAnyone else find this type of journalism totally unacceptable
Agree with every single thing he says.
Why do you think it’s unacceptable?
People on massive salaries get paid it because they have to accept colossal criticism when they fail to meet their kpi’s.
People who think this is unacceptable have been listening to too much Cindy.
@MajorRage said in Foster must go:
@BerniesCorner said in Foster must go:
Over at Stuff
"Mark Reason: The fishheads who are stinking out the All Blacks"
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/all-blacks/300640271/mark-reason-the-fishheads-who-are-stinking-out-the-all-blacksAnyone else find this type of journalism totally unacceptable
Agree with every single thing he says.
Why do you think it’s unacceptable?
People on massive salaries get paid it because they have to accept colossal criticism when they fail to meet their kpi’s.
People who think this is unacceptable have been listening to too much Cindy.
I didn't see much wrong in the article.
Who is Cindy, what is that about?
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@Chris-B Still got 150 posts to read to catch up, but can't proceed without commenting on your JJ Stewart points.
After the Vodanovich / Duff eras JJ revolutionised AB rugby. Cleared out the dead wood and changed the culture and attacking ethos of the team. Much like what is needed today.
It is true that we suffered from a lack of a reliable kicker but even more so from dirty fucking cheating Saffa refs. Which is why fans of a certain age will always hate losing to SA more than anyone else.
You are spot on with Vodanovich though. The parallels with Fozzie are quite stark. Only got the job because he served his time and was sort of last man standing. Took over from an iconic coach who had dome it all. Inherited a team with (more that) a few players in decline. Sounds like he was a genuine nice guy, but had no fucking clue.
Then when this was apparent to everyone after the 70 tour the fish heads at NZRFU (as was) reappointed him for the Lions tour.....
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I can handle the shit show to continue until the end of the year, if it's absolutely certain that Razor can take over in the new year with the coaching team he wants. Just meet all his demands. Sign him up until 2027 RWC, whatever. Just as long as it is a clean break from what we have now, and not half-arsed changes.
@Stargazer I wouldn’t sign him up until 2027. He has to prove himself and show a better trajectory. Sign him until 2025 and if he fails can him. There has to be accountability even if you are the chosen one.
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so, it is after midday on the Wednesday
In a week of massive massive media and online speculation, has there been anything official out of HQ? Even a Labor "announcement about an announcement"?
Other than a poorly thought out bit of social media from one person who only poured fuel on the flames?
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so, it is after midday on the Wednesday
In a week of massive massive media and online speculation, has there been anything official out of HQ? Even a Labor "announcement about an announcement"?
Other than a poorly thought out bit of social media from one person who only poured fuel on the flames?
@mariner4life why would there be? there nothing to address....everything is fine.....
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so, it is after midday on the Wednesday
In a week of massive massive media and online speculation, has there been anything official out of HQ? Even a Labor "announcement about an announcement"?
Other than a poorly thought out bit of social media from one person who only poured fuel on the flames?
@mariner4life I havent read back, but assuming we are talking the AB media manager one, lets not forget the spelling errors!
Professionalism!!
