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@dan54 said in All Blacks 2022:
We tend to only see a very small amount of fan's opinions on the net, and they should always be taken with a huge dose of salt!
Yeah, Warrenball was a press thing, but I recall my two Welsh mates with serious rugby smarts also agreeing with the general feeling about Gatland and I value their opinions highly. Their view seems to be about lack of creativity and not making the best of his resources.
Came right in the end though, I guess.
@victor-meldrew said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
@dan54 said in All Blacks 2022:
We tend to only see a very small amount of fan's opinions on the net, and they should always be taken with a huge dose of salt!
Yeah, Warrenball was a press thing, but I recall my two Welsh mates with serious rugby smarts also agreeing with the general feeling about Gatland and I value their opinions highly. Their view seems to be about lack of creativity and not making the best of his resources.
Came right in the end though, I guess.
Funnily enough by best mate is a Welshman too Vic, a real rugby man, him and I have been known to chase rugby all over the place to actually watch it, and he was always keen on what Gatland did, but didn't like some of Hansen's decisions.I always remember talking to a load of Welshmen during Lions tour to Aussie in 2001, and them asking me how NZ let Henry go, they thought he was great. I myself reckoned Hanry got better as an international coach AFTER theLions and Wales, as did Hansen, who says he learnt so much doing that job.
And even Razor says he would like to get international experience, why he wanted to go as an assistant on Lions tour to SA.And I know it's thought that promoting from within is not the thing to do by many in here, I will bet that Dan McKellar get's the Wallabies job after Rennie, RA is already hinting strongly that is the case.
And already Rennie is starting to cop it a bit in at least one Aussie forum. -
I agree with @Dan54 about Rennie, as he (Rennie) has said that he was already in discussions with Raelene Castle well before the RWC. I'm not absolving NZR, because they should have been proactive in approaching all potential candidates well in advance of Tokyo.
I've always been bemused about the term "Warrenball" because there are plenty of examples of teams he has coached that played expansive rugby. Wasps and Waikato being two. Maybe he was more pragmatic at international level but I don't think that Wales have changed too much since he left. So it is now Pivacball?
@bovidae said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
I've always been bemused about the term "Warrenball" because there are plenty of examples of teams he has coached that played expansive rugby. Wasps and Waikato being two. Maybe he was more pragmatic at international level but I don't think that Wales have changed too much since he left. So it is now Pivacball?
IMO really good coaches have an ability to see the way rugby should be played, but pragmatic enough to adopt the best way for the talent at hand.
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The good thing about the next AB coach is it will be his own success without argument.
Henry took over a successful Mitch Squad, Hansen over Henry and then Fozzie sucked the Kumara. The new coach will get to build from Scratch again and make it theres.
@hooroo said in All Blacks 2022:
The good thing about the next AB coach is it will be his own success without argument.
Henry took over a successful Mitch Squad, Hansen over Henry and then Fozzie sucked the Kumara. The new coach will get to build from Scratch again and make it theres.
Almost every coach brings in own players and so really makes team his own, Henry had a few of Mitchell's, same as Hansen and Foster. It will be same with next coach who will have a decent amount of present players. It has been same for as long as I have watched rugby, with maybe the only real new team was the baby Blacks where most of preferred team was stood down.
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@bovidae said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
I've always been bemused about the term "Warrenball" because there are plenty of examples of teams he has coached that played expansive rugby. Wasps and Waikato being two. Maybe he was more pragmatic at international level but I don't think that Wales have changed too much since he left. So it is now Pivacball?
IMO really good coaches have an ability to see the way rugby should be played, but pragmatic enough to adopt the best way for the talent at hand.
@antipodean And I thought that's what Gatland did with Wales.
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@victor-meldrew said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
@nepia said in All Blacks 2022:
@victor-meldrew said in All Blacks 2022:
@bones said in All Blacks 2022:
@dagrubster said in All Blacks 2022:
our leading most experienced coaches are not in NZ.
It's an easy thing to say, but how about some names? Jamie Joseph I think could be handy.....who else?
Schmidt is already in. Gatland?
The more involvement he has the worse the Chiefs are. When MacMillan has been in charge they look a much better team. Maybe his NH style doesn't work for our players?
IIRC, Gatland wasn't all that rated by many Welsh fans up to 2017 with his style of play being derided as "Warrenball", but he won 4 6N's has been relatively successful with the Lions.
Now he's full-time with the Chiefs we'll be able to see how good he is in SR and how he goes with the team over the next year.
Harsh, he is by far the most sucessful Lions coach ever!
But I think the reason we only had 2 people apply for the ABs job was timing. They left it until well late, so would you apply for your dream job with the ABs when, if you don’t get it there’s no decent jobs left (and the encumbent was in a very strong position to take the role)? That’s why Razor went for it, he was good to do some more years at sadres after. I wouldn’t do that, against a stacked deck and the posibility of coaching outer mongolia afterwards as that was the only job left.
IMO NZR did this on purpose, so they could have their choice confirmed. Not their fault only 2 applied, and one doesn’t have any international experience… /tinfoil hat
@machpants said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
Harsh, he is by far the most sucessful Lions coach ever!
I'm so old I go back to Syd Millar and Carwyn James...
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@victor-meldrew said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
@dan54 said in All Blacks 2022:
We tend to only see a very small amount of fan's opinions on the net, and they should always be taken with a huge dose of salt!
Yeah, Warrenball was a press thing, but I recall my two Welsh mates with serious rugby smarts also agreeing with the general feeling about Gatland and I value their opinions highly. Their view seems to be about lack of creativity and not making the best of his resources.
Came right in the end though, I guess.
Funnily enough by best mate is a Welshman too Vic, a real rugby man, him and I have been known to chase rugby all over the place to actually watch it, and he was always keen on what Gatland did, but didn't like some of Hansen's decisions.I always remember talking to a load of Welshmen during Lions tour to Aussie in 2001, and them asking me how NZ let Henry go, they thought he was great. I myself reckoned Hanry got better as an international coach AFTER theLions and Wales, as did Hansen, who says he learnt so much doing that job.
And even Razor says he would like to get international experience, why he wanted to go as an assistant on Lions tour to SA.And I know it's thought that promoting from within is not the thing to do by many in here, I will bet that Dan McKellar get's the Wallabies job after Rennie, RA is already hinting strongly that is the case.
And already Rennie is starting to cop it a bit in at least one Aussie forum.@dan54 said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
I always remember talking to a load of Welshmen during Lions tour to Aussie in 2001, and them asking me how NZ let Henry go, they thought he was great.
I've heard that too. His legacy was far more than simply coaching the national team and been told he was heavily involved in re-structuring the game in Wales.
As an aside, my Welsh mate's wife was an Assistant Headteacher and went to talk by Henry on education & extra-curricular activities. She said it was poss. the best lecture she'd ever been to and he was clearly top of tree on education thinking.
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@victor-meldrew said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
@nepia said in All Blacks 2022:
@victor-meldrew said in All Blacks 2022:
@bones said in All Blacks 2022:
@dagrubster said in All Blacks 2022:
our leading most experienced coaches are not in NZ.
It's an easy thing to say, but how about some names? Jamie Joseph I think could be handy.....who else?
Schmidt is already in. Gatland?
The more involvement he has the worse the Chiefs are. When MacMillan has been in charge they look a much better team. Maybe his NH style doesn't work for our players?
IIRC, Gatland wasn't all that rated by many Welsh fans up to 2017 with his style of play being derided as "Warrenball", but he won 4 6N's has been relatively successful with the Lions.
Now he's full-time with the Chiefs we'll be able to see how good he is in SR and how he goes with the team over the next year.
Harsh, he is by far the most sucessful Lions coach ever!
But I think the reason we only had 2 people apply for the ABs job was timing. They left it until well late, so would you apply for your dream job with the ABs when, if you don’t get it there’s no decent jobs left (and the encumbent was in a very strong position to take the role)? That’s why Razor went for it, he was good to do some more years at sadres after. I wouldn’t do that, against a stacked deck and the posibility of coaching outer mongolia afterwards as that was the only job left.
IMO NZR did this on purpose, so they could have their choice confirmed. Not their fault only 2 applied, and one doesn’t have any international experience… /tinfoil hat
@machpants said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
@victor-meldrew said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
@nepia said in All Blacks 2022:
@victor-meldrew said in All Blacks 2022:
@bones said in All Blacks 2022:
@dagrubster said in All Blacks 2022:
our leading most experienced coaches are not in NZ.
It's an easy thing to say, but how about some names? Jamie Joseph I think could be handy.....who else?
Schmidt is already in. Gatland?
The more involvement he has the worse the Chiefs are. When MacMillan has been in charge they look a much better team. Maybe his NH style doesn't work for our players?
IIRC, Gatland wasn't all that rated by many Welsh fans up to 2017 with his style of play being derided as "Warrenball", but he won 4 6N's has been relatively successful with the Lions.
Now he's full-time with the Chiefs we'll be able to see how good he is in SR and how he goes with the team over the next year.
Harsh, he is by far the most sucessful Lions coach ever!
Cough. Cough. Sir Ian McGeechan?
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@dan54 said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
I always remember talking to a load of Welshmen during Lions tour to Aussie in 2001, and them asking me how NZ let Henry go, they thought he was great.
I've heard that too. His legacy was far more than simply coaching the national team and been told he was heavily involved in re-structuring the game in Wales.
As an aside, my Welsh mate's wife was an Assistant Headteacher and went to talk by Henry on education & extra-curricular activities. She said it was poss. the best lecture she'd ever been to and he was clearly top of tree on education thinking.
@victor-meldrew said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
@dan54 said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
I always remember talking to a load of Welshmen during Lions tour to Aussie in 2001, and them asking me how NZ let Henry go, they thought he was great.
I've heard that too. His legacy was far more than simply coaching the national team and been told he was heavily involved in re-structuring the game in Wales.
As an aside, my Welsh mate's wife was an Assistant Headteacher and went to talk by Henry on education & extra-curricular activities. She said it was poss. the best lecture she'd ever been to and he was clearly top of tree on education thinking.
Looking in from the outside I'd say one of the biggest successes he had with Wales (aside from the re-structure - jury still out I'd say), was how he instilled belief in the national squad. His biggest mistake for me was taking on the Lions job in 2001 where I feel he lost that belief by overlooking many Welsh players. Gatland didn't make that mistake.
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@victor-meldrew said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
@dan54 said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
I always remember talking to a load of Welshmen during Lions tour to Aussie in 2001, and them asking me how NZ let Henry go, they thought he was great.
I've heard that too. His legacy was far more than simply coaching the national team and been told he was heavily involved in re-structuring the game in Wales.
As an aside, my Welsh mate's wife was an Assistant Headteacher and went to talk by Henry on education & extra-curricular activities. She said it was poss. the best lecture she'd ever been to and he was clearly top of tree on education thinking.
Looking in from the outside I'd say one of the biggest successes he had with Wales (aside from the re-structure - jury still out I'd say), was how he instilled belief in the national squad. His biggest mistake for me was taking on the Lions job in 2001 where I feel he lost that belief by overlooking many Welsh players. Gatland didn't make that mistake.
@catogrande said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
@victor-meldrew said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
@dan54 said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
I always remember talking to a load of Welshmen during Lions tour to Aussie in 2001, and them asking me how NZ let Henry go, they thought he was great.
I've heard that too. His legacy was far more than simply coaching the national team and been told he was heavily involved in re-structuring the game in Wales.
As an aside, my Welsh mate's wife was an Assistant Headteacher and went to talk by Henry on education & extra-curricular activities. She said it was poss. the best lecture she'd ever been to and he was clearly top of tree on education thinking.
Looking in from the outside I'd say one of the biggest successes he had with Wales (aside from the re-structure - jury still out I'd say), was how he instilled belief in the national squad.
And convincing Kiwi players they were eligible to play for Wales if their ancestors had once shagged a girl called Bronwyn.....
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@dan54 said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
I always remember talking to a load of Welshmen during Lions tour to Aussie in 2001, and them asking me how NZ let Henry go, they thought he was great.
I've heard that too. His legacy was far more than simply coaching the national team and been told he was heavily involved in re-structuring the game in Wales.
As an aside, my Welsh mate's wife was an Assistant Headteacher and went to talk by Henry on education & extra-curricular activities. She said it was poss. the best lecture she'd ever been to and he was clearly top of tree on education thinking.
@victor-meldrew said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
@dan54 said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
I always remember talking to a load of Welshmen during Lions tour to Aussie in 2001, and them asking me how NZ let Henry go, they thought he was great.
I've heard that too. His legacy was far more than simply coaching the national team and been told he was heavily involved in re-structuring the game in Wales.
As an aside, my Welsh mate's wife was an Assistant Headteacher and went to talk by Henry on education & extra-curricular activities. She said it was poss. the best lecture she'd ever been to and he was clearly top of tree on education thinking.
Yep Vic my daughter went to some safety education thing or something he spoke at a couple of years back and said he was most enlightening, and entertaining as he got message across.
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@machpants said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
@victor-meldrew said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
@nepia said in All Blacks 2022:
@victor-meldrew said in All Blacks 2022:
@bones said in All Blacks 2022:
@dagrubster said in All Blacks 2022:
our leading most experienced coaches are not in NZ.
It's an easy thing to say, but how about some names? Jamie Joseph I think could be handy.....who else?
Schmidt is already in. Gatland?
The more involvement he has the worse the Chiefs are. When MacMillan has been in charge they look a much better team. Maybe his NH style doesn't work for our players?
IIRC, Gatland wasn't all that rated by many Welsh fans up to 2017 with his style of play being derided as "Warrenball", but he won 4 6N's has been relatively successful with the Lions.
Now he's full-time with the Chiefs we'll be able to see how good he is in SR and how he goes with the team over the next year.
Harsh, he is by far the most sucessful Lions coach ever!
Cough. Cough. Sir Ian McGeechan?
@catogrande said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
@machpants said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
@victor-meldrew said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
@nepia said in All Blacks 2022:
@victor-meldrew said in All Blacks 2022:
@bones said in All Blacks 2022:
@dagrubster said in All Blacks 2022:
our leading most experienced coaches are not in NZ.
It's an easy thing to say, but how about some names? Jamie Joseph I think could be handy.....who else?
Schmidt is already in. Gatland?
The more involvement he has the worse the Chiefs are. When MacMillan has been in charge they look a much better team. Maybe his NH style doesn't work for our players?
IIRC, Gatland wasn't all that rated by many Welsh fans up to 2017 with his style of play being derided as "Warrenball", but he won 4 6N's has been relatively successful with the Lions.
Now he's full-time with the Chiefs we'll be able to see how good he is in SR and how he goes with the team over the next year.
Harsh, he is by far the most sucessful Lions coach ever!
Cough. Cough. Sir Ian McGeechan?
Nope lost too NZ, hardest tour to win. Garland got a draw, otherwise results equal, 50-50
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@catogrande said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
@machpants said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
@victor-meldrew said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
@nepia said in All Blacks 2022:
@victor-meldrew said in All Blacks 2022:
@bones said in All Blacks 2022:
@dagrubster said in All Blacks 2022:
our leading most experienced coaches are not in NZ.
It's an easy thing to say, but how about some names? Jamie Joseph I think could be handy.....who else?
Schmidt is already in. Gatland?
The more involvement he has the worse the Chiefs are. When MacMillan has been in charge they look a much better team. Maybe his NH style doesn't work for our players?
IIRC, Gatland wasn't all that rated by many Welsh fans up to 2017 with his style of play being derided as "Warrenball", but he won 4 6N's has been relatively successful with the Lions.
Now he's full-time with the Chiefs we'll be able to see how good he is in SR and how he goes with the team over the next year.
Harsh, he is by far the most sucessful Lions coach ever!
Cough. Cough. Sir Ian McGeechan?
Nope lost too NZ, hardest tour to win. Garland got a draw, otherwise results equal, 50-50
@machpants said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
@catogrande said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
@machpants said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
@victor-meldrew said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
@nepia said in All Blacks 2022:
@victor-meldrew said in All Blacks 2022:
@bones said in All Blacks 2022:
@dagrubster said in All Blacks 2022:
our leading most experienced coaches are not in NZ.
It's an easy thing to say, but how about some names? Jamie Joseph I think could be handy.....who else?
Schmidt is already in. Gatland?
The more involvement he has the worse the Chiefs are. When MacMillan has been in charge they look a much better team. Maybe his NH style doesn't work for our players?
IIRC, Gatland wasn't all that rated by many Welsh fans up to 2017 with his style of play being derided as "Warrenball", but he won 4 6N's has been relatively successful with the Lions.
Now he's full-time with the Chiefs we'll be able to see how good he is in SR and how he goes with the team over the next year.
Harsh, he is by far the most sucessful Lions coach ever!
Cough. Cough. Sir Ian McGeechan?
Nope lost too NZ, hardest tour to win. Garland got a draw, otherwise results equal, 50-50
I'd say his two Lions tours wins puts him ahead of Gatland's one. A counter argument would say that they both have a 50% winning record, either way it kinda disproves an assertion that Gatland was "by far the most successful Lions coach ever". :beaming_face_with_smiling_eyes:
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@hooroo said in All Blacks 2022:
The good thing about the next AB coach is it will be his own success without argument.
Henry took over a successful Mitch Squad, Hansen over Henry and then Fozzie sucked the Kumara. The new coach will get to build from Scratch again and make it theres.
Almost every coach brings in own players and so really makes team his own, Henry had a few of Mitchell's, same as Hansen and Foster. It will be same with next coach who will have a decent amount of present players. It has been same for as long as I have watched rugby, with maybe the only real new team was the baby Blacks where most of preferred team was stood down.
@dan54 said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
It has been same for as long as I have watched rugby, with maybe the only real new team was the baby Blacks where most of preferred team was stood down.
1974 The AB selectors named a squad of 24 to tour Australia that featured 15 debutants including the captain Andy Leslie and a new coach in JJ Stewart
this after a 1973 season where NZ played five matches, all at home - losing to NZ Juniors, NZ presidents 15 and an England team that was labelled the worst to tour NZ having lost all their lead up games (Taranaki, Wellington, Canterbury) and having only beaten Fiji by one point en route to NZ.
Lets trust things never get that bad again
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@dan54 said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
It has been same for as long as I have watched rugby, with maybe the only real new team was the baby Blacks where most of preferred team was stood down.
1974 The AB selectors named a squad of 24 to tour Australia that featured 15 debutants including the captain Andy Leslie and a new coach in JJ Stewart
this after a 1973 season where NZ played five matches, all at home - losing to NZ Juniors, NZ presidents 15 and an England team that was labelled the worst to tour NZ having lost all their lead up games (Taranaki, Wellington, Canterbury) and having only beaten Fiji by one point en route to NZ.
Lets trust things never get that bad again
@dogmeat said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
@dan54 said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
It has been same for as long as I have watched rugby, with maybe the only real new team was the baby Blacks where most of preferred team was stood down.
1974 The AB selectors named a squad of 24 to tour Australia that featured 15 debutants including the captain Andy Leslie and a new coach in JJ Stewart
this after a 1973 season where NZ played five matches, all at home - losing to NZ Juniors, NZ presidents 15 and an England team that was labelled the worst to tour NZ having lost all their lead up games (Taranaki, Wellington, Canterbury) and having only beaten Fiji by one point en route to NZ.
Lets trust things never get that bad again
Ok I will pay that mate. I forgot about old days when the coaches had that much fun with selection, hell I remember being like everyone (including ABs themselves) thought they only had to turn up to win against Juniors. AB s got together 3 days before game, and seem to recall a write up before Juniors game that they didn't even train properly. That was in days when Juniors were under 23 I think, colts were under 21.
That's if I remember correctly. I think Poms were only home test we played that year, and basically no trials or anything , just basically picked from tourists to NH end of 72 early 73.. I think we beat Poms at England during that tour and drew with Irelnd and lost to French
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@dan54 said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
It has been same for as long as I have watched rugby, with maybe the only real new team was the baby Blacks where most of preferred team was stood down.
1974 The AB selectors named a squad of 24 to tour Australia that featured 15 debutants including the captain Andy Leslie and a new coach in JJ Stewart
this after a 1973 season where NZ played five matches, all at home - losing to NZ Juniors, NZ presidents 15 and an England team that was labelled the worst to tour NZ having lost all their lead up games (Taranaki, Wellington, Canterbury) and having only beaten Fiji by one point en route to NZ.
Lets trust things never get that bad again
@dogmeat said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
@dan54 said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
It has been same for as long as I have watched rugby, with maybe the only real new team was the baby Blacks where most of preferred team was stood down.
1974 The AB selectors named a squad of 24 to tour Australia that featured 15 debutants including the captain Andy Leslie and a new coach in JJ Stewart
this after a 1973 season where NZ played five matches, all at home - losing to NZ Juniors, NZ presidents 15 and an England team that was labelled the worst to tour NZ having lost all their lead up games (Taranaki, Wellington, Canterbury) and having only beaten Fiji by one point en route to NZ.
Lets trust things never get that bad again
Think that was when JJ Stewart took over from Bob Duff. Duff's reign included a disastrous 72-73 NH tour which showed how far behind NZ rugby actually was.
JJ Stewart took over and thoroughly cleaned out the stables and halted the decline. There was also a concerted effort to provide a development path for players with tours to Argentine etc which provided players like Mourie, Wilson and Haden. Looking back, he did a real good job but it was a shit time to be an AB supporter.
Oh, and I recall Duff being touted as the Canterbury "wonder coach" who would restore AB fortunes after the '70 & '71 Test series defeats as everything else was good in the NZ garden. Sound familiar?
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@dogmeat said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
@dan54 said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
It has been same for as long as I have watched rugby, with maybe the only real new team was the baby Blacks where most of preferred team was stood down.
1974 The AB selectors named a squad of 24 to tour Australia that featured 15 debutants including the captain Andy Leslie and a new coach in JJ Stewart
this after a 1973 season where NZ played five matches, all at home - losing to NZ Juniors, NZ presidents 15 and an England team that was labelled the worst to tour NZ having lost all their lead up games (Taranaki, Wellington, Canterbury) and having only beaten Fiji by one point en route to NZ.
Lets trust things never get that bad again
Think that was when JJ Stewart took over from Bob Duff. Duff's reign included a disastrous 72-73 NH tour which showed how far behind NZ rugby actually was.
JJ Stewart took over and thoroughly cleaned out the stables and halted the decline. There was also a concerted effort to provide a development path for players with tours to Argentine etc which provided players like Mourie, Wilson and Haden. Looking back, he did a real good job but it was a shit time to be an AB supporter.
Oh, and I recall Duff being touted as the Canterbury "wonder coach" who would restore AB fortunes after the '70 & '71 Test series defeats as everything else was good in the NZ garden. Sound familiar?
Disastrous 72-73 NH tour? Test match record of P5, W3, D1, L1.
High expectations I guess
Edit: Wiki has Bob Duff as only assistant manager. Ernie Todd as manager.
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Disastrous 72-73 NH tour? Test match record of P5, W3, D1, L1.
High expectations I guess
Edit: Wiki has Bob Duff as only assistant manager. Ernie Todd as manager.
@catogrande said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
Disastrous 72-73 NH tour? Test match record of P5, W3, D1, L1.
High expectations I guess
Murdoch incident and other sundry disasters. Manager was Ernie Todd who was ill and should never have been given the job.
Edit: Wiki has Bob Duff as only assistant manager.Think that was what they called the coach in them days
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@catogrande said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
Disastrous 72-73 NH tour? Test match record of P5, W3, D1, L1.
High expectations I guess
Murdoch incident and other sundry disasters. Manager was Ernie Todd who was ill and should never have been given the job.
Edit: Wiki has Bob Duff as only assistant manager.Think that was what they called the coach in them days
Ah. I see. Wiki only has the bare facts.
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Ah. I see. Wiki only has the bare facts.
@catogrande said in Foster, Robertson, Rennie etc:
Ah. I see. Wiki only has the bare facts.
Believe it or not, the word "coach" was associated with professionalism for quite some time.
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Disastrous 72-73 NH tour? Test match record of P5, W3, D1, L1.
High expectations I guess
Edit: Wiki has Bob Duff as only assistant manager. Ernie Todd as manager.
@catogrande Disastrous because as @Victor-Meldrew said the Murdoch affair, the culture of the team but above all the results.
The test side was not too bad and came within minutes of redeeming the whole tour if they had beaten Ireland and thus become the first NZ side to complete the Grand Slam. Instead they lost to Llanelli (remember learning about it when I got on bus to school 'we lost to a bloody Welsh village" ) North west Counties, Midland Counties, and drew with Munster before Tom Grace scored in the last minute for Ireland (Spike Milligan wrote By Jesus By Grace we are saved). If the touchline conversion had gone over we would have lost as it ended the game.
We were then schooled by the Baabaas and went on to France which no one wanted to do and lost in Paris.
So an unhappy touring party with a back seat of the bus who had a serious attitude and apparently were a bunch of bullies. In the main played boring 9 man rugby despite having some really talented backs. Grant Batty was the emerging star scoring what seemed like half our trys.
P32 W25 D2 L5 is really not good enough for an All Black side.Remember it like it was yesterday - getting up in the middle of the night to watch B&W live coverage from the Northern hemisphere for the first time ever. TBH probably remember it better than I do last years tests! .
