All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson
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@chris-b thats before the fact it's so hot you need to go swimming, but oh no, cant do that cos the beach is closed; Stonefish, Jellyfish, sharks, more snakes, Salty's and god knows what else!
@taniwharugby It's got a "Donald Trump's Shithole" stamped all over it!
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@dk said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
Fuck, we complain a lot, what a shit bunch of fans
It's our expectations that drives the team to success!
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@mn5 said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
@mariner4life said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
Shit team in a shit location. lucky the Warriors are on
DO NOT diss Nelson you Queensland Bogan fluffybunny.
Ignore him, MN5.
What would a fucker who lives in Cairns know about locations? He's choosing to live in a swamp, inhabited by nasty, poisonous biting creatures - and that's just the people, don't get me started on the wildlife.
In fact, do. Go to the beach - get eaten by a crocodile. Go for a run - get bitten by a snake. Go for a shit - get bitten by a spider. Go anywhere and get bitten by dengue-ridden mosquitos or some other fucking insect largely unknown to science.
Go to the pub and be entertained by Tex Morton and his pet bantam, Stu - singing "Blue Bayou" - a song about living in a swamp.
In summary, he wouldn't know a good location if it bit him on the arse - and in Cairns it probably will!
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@dk said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
Fuck, we complain a lot, what a shit bunch of fans
Welcome to TSF. You must be new here?
@donsteppa said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
@dk said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
Fuck, we complain a lot, what a shit bunch of fans
Welcome to TSF. You must be new here?
No, just recovering from my lobotomy -
@bones said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
I don't see why Read couldn't cover 7, with what we now expect from our openside.
Read has covered, and ended up playing at 7, before. He was much younger then of course!
It will be interesting to see if L Whitelock comes on to play 6 or 8.
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@chris-b triggered as fuck.
Enjoy the Jnr ABs game you've been given
@mariner4life You'd have been disappointed if I'd not bitten.
Give my regards to Stu on Friday and Saturday nights!
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@wreck-diver said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
@catogrande said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
@wreck-diver said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
@majorrage And I GAF what you think of my spelling.
And punctuation?
As Mark Richardson used to say no one likes a corrector.
As Mark Richardson meant, if he was smart enough to realise it - "nobody who always gets shit wrong likes a corrector".
@kruse said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
@wreck-diver said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
@catogrande said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
@wreck-diver said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
@majorrage And I GAF what you think of my spelling.
And punctuation?
As Mark Richardson used to say no one likes a corrector.
As Mark Richardson meant, if he was smart enough to realise it - "nobody who always gets shit wrong likes a corrector".
Glade to hear that you get everything right in life. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:
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@kruse said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
@wreck-diver said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
@catogrande said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
@wreck-diver said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
@majorrage And I GAF what you think of my spelling.
And punctuation?
As Mark Richardson used to say no one likes a corrector.
As Mark Richardson meant, if he was smart enough to realise it - "nobody who always gets shit wrong likes a corrector".
Glade to hear that you get everything right in life. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:
@wreck-diver said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
@kruse said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
@wreck-diver said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
@catogrande said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
@wreck-diver said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
@majorrage And I GAF what you think of my spelling.
And punctuation?
As Mark Richardson used to say no one likes a corrector.
As Mark Richardson meant, if he was smart enough to realise it - "nobody who always gets shit wrong likes a corrector".
Glade to hear that you get everything right in life. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:
Fuck... spelling and punctuation are about the only things I get right in life - and not even them all the time. Hence the focus.
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@chester-draws said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
@wreck-diver said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
@stargazer said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
Ian Foster explains why Mo'unga wasn't released for Mitre 10 Cup (video in article):
The more and more I hear Foster talk I think we are in good hands going forward after Shag.
Ahhhhhhhhh!
Foster talked up a storm for the Chiefs too. He's a likeable man, who knows a lot about rugby.
What he couldn't do was sustain good performances in his teams. Something was wrong with the way he mentally prepared them. The Chiefs were fragile, even when winning.
Also he couldn't sack his favourites. Promising players who were promoted but didn't deliver (de Malmanche, say) were never dropped.
He's not a terrible coach, but we have better options.
Please don't compare those swamp rats from the Waikato to the AB environment thats like comparing a zephar to a procshe
@wreck-diver said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
@chester-draws said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
@wreck-diver said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
@stargazer said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
Ian Foster explains why Mo'unga wasn't released for Mitre 10 Cup (video in article):
The more and more I hear Foster talk I think we are in good hands going forward after Shag.
Ahhhhhhhhh!
Foster talked up a storm for the Chiefs too. He's a likeable man, who knows a lot about rugby.
What he couldn't do was sustain good performances in his teams. Something was wrong with the way he mentally prepared them. The Chiefs were fragile, even when winning.
Also he couldn't sack his favourites. Promising players who were promoted but didn't deliver (de Malmanche, say) were never dropped.
He's not a terrible coach, but we have better options.
Please don't compare those swamp rats from the Waikato to the AB environment thats like comparing a zephar to a procshe
We're talking Chiefs, not Waikato.
The year after Foster left, the Chiefs team won the Super Rugby competition. So perhaps it wasn't the environment after all.
If Foster is head coach of the ABs, expect the same. Some good wins punctuated by inexplicable losses. Good stretches followed by terrible ones. I do not miss the Jon Mitchell or John Hart eras, and do not want it repeated. They both talked a good game too.
The quality of players will only ensure wins if the selector picks the best players in the first place, and motivates them correctly.
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@wreck-diver said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
@chester-draws said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
@wreck-diver said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
@stargazer said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
Ian Foster explains why Mo'unga wasn't released for Mitre 10 Cup (video in article):
The more and more I hear Foster talk I think we are in good hands going forward after Shag.
Ahhhhhhhhh!
Foster talked up a storm for the Chiefs too. He's a likeable man, who knows a lot about rugby.
What he couldn't do was sustain good performances in his teams. Something was wrong with the way he mentally prepared them. The Chiefs were fragile, even when winning.
Also he couldn't sack his favourites. Promising players who were promoted but didn't deliver (de Malmanche, say) were never dropped.
He's not a terrible coach, but we have better options.
Please don't compare those swamp rats from the Waikato to the AB environment thats like comparing a zephar to a procshe
We're talking Chiefs, not Waikato.
The year after Foster left, the Chiefs team won the Super Rugby competition. So perhaps it wasn't the environment after all.
If Foster is head coach of the ABs, expect the same. Some good wins punctuated by inexplicable losses. Good stretches followed by terrible ones. I do not miss the Jon Mitchell or John Hart eras, and do not want it repeated. They both talked a good game too.
The quality of players will only ensure wins if the selector picks the best players in the first place, and motivates them correctly.
@chester-draws said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
@wreck-diver said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
@chester-draws said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
@wreck-diver said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
@stargazer said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
Ian Foster explains why Mo'unga wasn't released for Mitre 10 Cup (video in article):
The more and more I hear Foster talk I think we are in good hands going forward after Shag.
Ahhhhhhhhh!
Foster talked up a storm for the Chiefs too. He's a likeable man, who knows a lot about rugby.
What he couldn't do was sustain good performances in his teams. Something was wrong with the way he mentally prepared them. The Chiefs were fragile, even when winning.
Also he couldn't sack his favourites. Promising players who were promoted but didn't deliver (de Malmanche, say) were never dropped.
He's not a terrible coach, but we have better options.
Please don't compare those swamp rats from the Waikato to the AB environment thats like comparing a zephar to a procshe
We're talking Chiefs, not Waikato.
The year after Foster left, the Chiefs team won the Super Rugby competition. So perhaps it wasn't the environment after all.
If Foster is head coach of the ABs, expect the same. Some good wins punctuated by inexplicable losses. Good stretches followed by terrible ones. I do not miss the Jon Mitchell or John Hart eras, and do not want it repeated. They both talked a good game too.
The quality of players will only ensure wins if the selector picks the best players in the first place, and motivates them correctly.
Didn't John Mitchell have quite a good strike rate for the AB's? Third best after Hansen and Ted?
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@machpants said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
He was kicked for being a grumpy twat, esp with the press, not poor coaching/results.
I don't believe his coaching didn't play a part in it, we folded like a cheap suit in a game we should have won. Plus, any fool could see he didn't have a plan of his own, he rolled out the 02 Crusaders game plan in his first year and the 03 Blues in his second.
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@machpants said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
He was kicked for being a grumpy twat, esp with the press, not poor coaching/results.
I don't believe his coaching didn't play a part in it, we folded like a cheap suit in a game we should have won. Plus, any fool could see he didn't have a plan of his own, he rolled out the 02 Crusaders game plan in his first year and the 03 Blues in his second.
@nepia er, he copied basketball!
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@machpants He pissed off the sponsors big time, so that ensured his exit.
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@machpants said in All Blacks v Argentina - Nelson:
He was kicked for being a grumpy twat, esp with the press, not poor coaching/results.
The All Blacks have had some magnificently surly coaches in their time. I still struggle to believe the real reason for his demotion was issues about that.
A couple of turns with a PR specialist, and a desire to do better could have got Cueball to the point where he was acceptable.
He's had the chop from a few teams now, and it hasn't been about PR.
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I actually think the main reason he got tinned was the availability of Graham Henry.
The AB's played some seriously attractive rugby under Mitchell, gained back the Bled after a 5 year hiatus and put 50 points on both Aus / SA in consecutive weekends. We were then undone by an obsessive opposition coach who studied the shit out of us and worked out a gameplan to beat us in a knockout competition. The week after that, a slightly different game plan almost won a rugby world cup.
Not enough credit is given to Mitchell for what he achieved as coach of the AB's and also to Eddie Jones, for what he achieved with Australia in 2003.
