Foster, Robertson etc

Chris

@Victor-Meldrew said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

@Old-Samurai-Jack said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

They had so much respect for the 71 Lions.

Even more for Carwyn James who was arguably the greatest coach Rugby has seen. He utterly changed the way the game was played and you can pretty much trace today's attacking game back to him.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/jun/10/carwyn-james-lions-1971-mastermind

Brilliant coach re defined back play in the 1970’s
struggled with life away from the Rugby field.
He couldn’t really talk about it in those times.

Crucial

@Frank said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

@Crucial said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

@Frank said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

@Crucial said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

At this point of posting there are 1697 posts in this thread saying basically the same thing.

Take that as you wish.

We ain't finished with your boy Foster yet.

My boy?

Your son.

You’ve lost me even more.
If you’re trying to paint me as a Foster white knight then I can only ask that you look back at the numerous critical posts I have made.
What I will also do though is call out people talking bollocks and endlessly repeating themselves. I’m also happy to discuss the reasoning behind some decisions to try and understand them instead of just making knee jerk comments about fatness and stupidity.
Apologies if I have misunderstood this place as having discussion boards.

Bones

@Crucial said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

Apologies if I have misunderstood this place as having discussion boards.

I'm think I'm one of the better placed ones to firmly reject this apology. This misunderstanding seems rather wilful.

Crucial

@Bones said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

@Crucial said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

Apologies if I have misunderstood this place as having discussion boards.

I'm think I'm one of the better placed ones to firmly reject this apology. This misunderstanding seems rather wilful.

True.
When it suits it suits.

Catogrande

@Crucial said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

@Frank said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

@Crucial said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

@Frank said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

@Crucial said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

At this point of posting there are 1697 posts in this thread saying basically the same thing.

Take that as you wish.

We ain't finished with your boy Foster yet.

My boy?

Your son.

You’ve lost me even more.
If you’re trying to paint me as a Foster white knight then I can only ask that you look back at the numerous critical posts I have made.
What I will also do though is call out people talking bollocks and endlessly repeating themselves. I’m also happy to discuss the reasoning behind some decisions to try and understand them instead of just making knee jerk comments about fatness and stupidity.
Apologies if I have misunderstood this place as having discussion boards.

Yeah, but Foster is fat. So Ner!

Dan54

@Victor-Meldrew said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

@taniwharugby said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

so how did you guys discuss that back then to get that consensus, send one another letters?

We used to wait for Terry McLean's new book to come out.

But seriously, in many ways I think there was better analysis in the media at that time than now. Much less, but better quality overall.

Yep and books and articles were written in a manner that didn't appear to be only to get reaction. Let's face it a pretty good percentage of posters on rugby orus wouldn't read books as there is often more then 2 paragraphs involved and that would stretch some's ability to concetrate, and most were written by people who actually attended games and spoke to playerscoaches/supporters etc.

Frank

@Crucial said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

@Frank said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

@Crucial said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

@Frank said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

@Crucial said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

At this point of posting there are 1697 posts in this thread saying basically the same thing.

Take that as you wish.

We ain't finished with your boy Foster yet.

My boy?

Your son.

You’ve lost me even more.
If you’re trying to paint me as a Foster white knight then I can only ask that you look back at the numerous critical posts I have made.
What I will also do though is call out people talking bollocks and endlessly repeating themselves. I’m also happy to discuss the reasoning behind some decisions to try and understand them instead of just making knee jerk comments about fatness and stupidity.
Apologies if I have misunderstood this place as having discussion boards.

Thank God you are here raising the tone of this place!

Crucial

@Frank said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

@Crucial said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

@Frank said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

@Crucial said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

@Frank said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

@Crucial said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

At this point of posting there are 1697 posts in this thread saying basically the same thing.

Take that as you wish.

We ain't finished with your boy Foster yet.

My boy?

Your son.

You’ve lost me even more.
If you’re trying to paint me as a Foster white knight then I can only ask that you look back at the numerous critical posts I have made.
What I will also do though is call out people talking bollocks and endlessly repeating themselves. I’m also happy to discuss the reasoning behind some decisions to try and understand them instead of just making knee jerk comments about fatness and stupidity.
Apologies if I have misunderstood this place as having discussion boards.

Thank God you are here raising the tone of this place!

Someone has to try. Don't want to turn into GAGR.

Darren

@Dan54 said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

@Victor-Meldrew said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

@taniwharugby said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

so how did you guys discuss that back then to get that consensus, send one another letters?

We used to wait for Terry McLean's new book to come out.

But seriously, in many ways I think there was better analysis in the media at that time than now. Much less, but better quality overall.

Yep and books and articles were written in a manner that didn't appear to be only to get reaction. Let's face it a pretty good percentage of posters on rugby orus wouldn't read books as there is often more then 2 paragraphs involved and that would stretch some's ability to concetrate, and most were written by people who actually attended games and spoke to playerscoaches/supporters etc.

TLDR

mariner4life

@Dan54 said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

Let's face it a pretty good percentage of posters on rugby orus wouldn't read books as there is often more then 2 paragraphs involved and that would stretch some's ability to concetrate

i absolutely adore how many errors and typos are in this one sentence aimed at saying how stupid other people are. It's delicious

canefan

@mariner4life said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

@Dan54 said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

Let's face it a pretty good percentage of posters on rugby orus wouldn't read books as there is often more then 2 paragraphs involved and that would stretch some's ability to concetrate

i absolutely adore how many errors and typos are in this one sentence aimed at saying how stupid other people are. It's delicious

Somewhere, someone's pedantometer just exploded

Tim

@mariner4life Dementia?

Dan54

@mariner4life said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

@Dan54 said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

Let's face it a pretty good percentage of posters on rugby orus wouldn't read books as there is often more then 2 paragraphs involved and that would stretch some's ability to concetrate

i absolutely adore how many errors and typos are in this one sentence aimed at saying how stupid other people are. It's delicious

You really need to stop being so sensitive, I was in no way saying anyone is stupid, merely pointing out the difference in so called journalism. The writers like Terry McLean etc wrote about tours while actually on the tours with ABs or whoever, where as now with internet anyone can post online and seemingly get their opinions etc of whatever is latest internet scource, they don't seem to actually travel with or talk to teams, or indeed even watch games apart from on tv in many cases.. Not a dig at anyone , merely pointing out differences of how info gets passed on.
Sorry I can't be buggered going through to make sure everything is up to your high standards,.

Frank

@Dan54 said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

@mariner4life said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

@Dan54 said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

Let's face it a pretty good percentage of posters on rugby orus wouldn't read books as there is often more then 2 paragraphs involved and that would stretch some's ability to concetrate

i absolutely adore how many errors and typos are in this one sentence aimed at saying how stupid other people are. It's delicious

You really need to stop being so sensitive, I was in no way saying anyone is stupid, merely pointing out the difference in so called journalism. The writers like Terry McLean etc wrote about tours while actually on the tours with ABs or whoever, where as now with internet anyone can post online and seemingly get their opinions etc of whatever is latest internet scource, they don't seem to actually travel with or talk to teams, or indeed even watch games apart from on tv in many cases.. Not a dig at anyone , merely pointing out differences of how info gets passed on.
Sorry I can't be buggered going through to make sure everything is up to your high standards,.

Just to help you, I bolded a few of the more obvious grammar errors in your above misguided rant. Tell us more about real rugby supporters!

Crucial

No Quarter

@Dan54 said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

@mariner4life said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

@Dan54 said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

Let's face it a pretty good percentage of posters on rugby orus wouldn't read books as there is often more then 2 paragraphs involved and that would stretch some's ability to concetrate

i absolutely adore how many errors and typos are in this one sentence aimed at saying how stupid other people are. It's delicious

You really need to stop being so sensitive, I was in no way saying anyone is stupid, merely pointing out the difference in so called journalism. The writers like Terry McLean etc wrote about tours while actually on the tours with ABs or whoever, where as now with internet anyone can post online and seemingly get their opinions etc of whatever is latest internet scource, they don't seem to actually travel with or talk to teams, or indeed even watch games apart from on tv in many cases.. Not a dig at anyone , merely pointing out differences of how info gets passed on.
Sorry I can't be buggered going through to make sure everything is up to your high standards,.

I know Grandpa, everything was better in the good old days, now let's get you back to bed

Rancid Schnitzel

To sum up, I think everyone agrees that Foster should go and that he's very fat. The disagreement is about how bad this mess is and how to fix it. Like losing weight, I hope fixing the ABs won't be as hard or impossible as it's made out to be. Ultimately what's required is an awareness of the problem and a willingness to make the necessary changes.

Dan54

@No-Quarter said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

@Dan54 said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

@mariner4life said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

@Dan54 said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

Let's face it a pretty good percentage of posters on rugby orus wouldn't read books as there is often more then 2 paragraphs involved and that would stretch some's ability to concetrate

i absolutely adore how many errors and typos are in this one sentence aimed at saying how stupid other people are. It's delicious

You really need to stop being so sensitive, I was in no way saying anyone is stupid, merely pointing out the difference in so called journalism. The writers like Terry McLean etc wrote about tours while actually on the tours with ABs or whoever, where as now with internet anyone can post online and seemingly get their opinions etc of whatever is latest internet scource, they don't seem to actually travel with or talk to teams, or indeed even watch games apart from on tv in many cases.. Not a dig at anyone , merely pointing out differences of how info gets passed on.
Sorry I can't be buggered going through to make sure everything is up to your high standards,.

I know Grandpa, everything was better in the good old days, now let's get you back to bed

God I didn't know we had so many sensitive souls on here, never once said it was better or worse just different. Reporters travelled with and talked to players a lot more. They could well of been filling us up with crap to, just there was more to the crap they told us maybe.

KiwiMurph

Matfield felt the Springboks had an advantage in this key defensive area that they needed to maximise to set up attacking options in the opening Rugby Championship clash at Mbombela Stadium on Saturday.

“The New Zealand defence has been one of the slowest in terms of coming off the line. That is what gave the Ireland attack a lot of opportunity over the course of that series,” he said.

“If South Africa was playing against Ireland, for example, they would come off the line a lot quicker to shut down the options. Ireland would probably struggle to get more than one or two passes away. As a result, Ireland would probably be forced to kick a lot more.

“New Zealand don’t have the best defence at the moment. The Boks can run at them – and I’m not talking about running from deep within our own half. If we get into their half, we can build through our forwards, and we can come round the corner. Once we set the platform, we can play a few options. That is how you can build momentum against them.”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/all-blacks/129461213/springboks-great-victor-matfield-puts-more-pressure-on-all-blacks-captain-sam-cane

Machpants

@KiwiMurph said in Foster must go / Assistant Coach changes:

Matfield felt the Springboks had an advantage in this key defensive area that they needed to maximise to set up attacking options in the opening Rugby Championship clash at Mbombela Stadium on Saturday.

“The New Zealand defence has been one of the slowest in terms of coming off the line. That is what gave the Ireland attack a lot of opportunity over the course of that series,” he said.

“If South Africa was playing against Ireland, for example, they would come off the line a lot quicker to shut down the options. Ireland would probably struggle to get more than one or two passes away. As a result, Ireland would probably be forced to kick a lot more.

“New Zealand don’t have the best defence at the moment. The Boks can run at them – and I’m not talking about running from deep within our own half. If we get into their half, we can build through our forwards, and we can come round the corner. Once we set the platform, we can play a few options. That is how you can build momentum against them.”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/all-blacks/129461213/springboks-great-victor-matfield-puts-more-pressure-on-all-blacks-captain-sam-cane

Scott McLeod, ignoring the effectiveness rush defence since 2017

EDIT: crazy since the Canes had won the SR the year before on awesome rush defence. No tries conceeded in the finals, that will never be equalled

The Silver Fern

Foster, Robertson etc