Foster, Robertson etc
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Ah the 70's a great time to be growing up supporting the AB's NOT!!!
I didn't bother replying to the original post that caused this little diversion as I thought @booboo summed it up nicely.
Add to the similarities it came after an era of game changing global dominance, by a team stacked with all time legends coached by one of the greats.
Here's that decade's record Won 24 - Drew 2 Lost 15. Nine of the wins were against Oz, Ireland and Scotland who were the equivalents of today's Argentina I guess.
By comparison Fozzie's era has been a golden age ...
Even the "good" years had their disasters. Cornelson's (father of the Japan player) 4 tries, the Bastille Day Massacre, 1st Test v France '77 etc etc
Ah the 70's a great time to be growing up supporting the AB's NOT!!!
I didn't bother replying to the original post that caused this little diversion as I thought @booboo summed it up nicely.
Add to the similarities it came after an era of game changing global dominance, by a team stacked with all time legends coached by one of the greats.
Here's that decade's record Won 24 - Drew 2 Lost 15. Nine of the wins were against Oz, Ireland and Scotland who were the equivalents of today's Argentina I guess.
By comparison Fozzie's era has been a golden age ...
Even the "good" years had their disasters. Cornelson's (father of the Japan player) 4 tries, the Bastille Day Massacre, 1st Test v France '77 etc etc
I was at the cornelson 4 tries game and reeves French team flogging us at eden park with running rugby as a teenager.
It was a bit like now in that it felt like we were stuck in an older style game plan that doesn’t appear to be as effective as it used to be
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@kiwi_expat said in Foster:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Foster:
I hope they keep Foster as coach until 2030 its so amusing watching people try to defend him.
It's not people defending Foster. It's people not believing the hype that a coach who's undoubtedly good at SR level but with minimal and patchy experience at international level - and zero experience at Test level - is the magic solution to restore the AB's to the glory days, that NZR knows he will do this but there is some secret illuminati plot within NZR to prevent it happening.
So you end up with stupid arguments that Foster should be sacked as he lost to a team we've never lost to before, but a different criteria should apply to Robertson as he needs time to settle into the role due to inexperience at Test level.
International experience has nothing to do with coaching ability, you've either got 'it' or you don't.
It's a skill that is innate & in-built for guys such as Jones, Razor, Galthie, Erasmus, etc..
Foster just doesn't have 'it', the evidence is... he has achieved underwhelming results in every head coaching role across his 20 year coaching career with Waikato, Chiefs, & now the All Blacks...
Kirwan was the head coach of Italy & Japan, he was a poor Blues coach, after coaching Wales for 12 years Gatland lost 8/8 of his Chiefs matches, their worst losing streak ever. Experience is irrelevant in many cases.
What is your evidence (examples welcome) that Robertson has the innate / in built skill to be an international coach?
@MajorRage said in Foster:
@kiwi_expat said in Foster:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Foster:
I hope they keep Foster as coach until 2030 its so amusing watching people try to defend him.
It's not people defending Foster. It's people not believing the hype that a coach who's undoubtedly good at SR level but with minimal and patchy experience at international level - and zero experience at Test level - is the magic solution to restore the AB's to the glory days, that NZR knows he will do this but there is some secret illuminati plot within NZR to prevent it happening.
So you end up with stupid arguments that Foster should be sacked as he lost to a team we've never lost to before, but a different criteria should apply to Robertson as he needs time to settle into the role due to inexperience at Test level.
International experience has nothing to do with coaching ability, you've either got 'it' or you don't.
It's a skill that is innate & in-built for guys such as Jones, Razor, Galthie, Erasmus, etc..
Foster just doesn't have 'it', the evidence is... he has achieved underwhelming results in every head coaching role across his 20 year coaching career with Waikato, Chiefs, & now the All Blacks...
Kirwan was the head coach of Italy & Japan, he was a poor Blues coach, after coaching Wales for 12 years Gatland lost 8/8 of his Chiefs matches, their worst losing streak ever. Experience is irrelevant in many cases.
What is your evidence (examples welcome) that Robertson has the innate / in built skill to be an international coach?
Maybe, because he has developed a track record that quite comfortably exceeds what Robbie Deans, Wayne Smith, Graham Henry, Dave Rennie, etc.. ever achieved at Super Rugby and provincial level?
Razor is obviously a once in a generation coach, and players such as Izzy Dagg who've played under NZ's greatest coach (Wayne Smith) have stressed that Razor is on his level.
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Ah the 70's a great time to be growing up supporting the AB's NOT!!!
I didn't bother replying to the original post that caused this little diversion as I thought @booboo summed it up nicely.
Add to the similarities it came after an era of game changing global dominance, by a team stacked with all time legends coached by one of the greats.
Here's that decade's record Won 24 - Drew 2 Lost 15. Nine of the wins were against Oz, Ireland and Scotland who were the equivalents of today's Argentina I guess.
By comparison Fozzie's era has been a golden age ...
Even the "good" years had their disasters. Cornelson's (father of the Japan player) 4 tries, the Bastille Day Massacre, 1st Test v France '77 etc etc
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@MajorRage said in Foster:
@kiwi_expat said in Foster:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Foster:
I hope they keep Foster as coach until 2030 its so amusing watching people try to defend him.
It's not people defending Foster. It's people not believing the hype that a coach who's undoubtedly good at SR level but with minimal and patchy experience at international level - and zero experience at Test level - is the magic solution to restore the AB's to the glory days, that NZR knows he will do this but there is some secret illuminati plot within NZR to prevent it happening.
So you end up with stupid arguments that Foster should be sacked as he lost to a team we've never lost to before, but a different criteria should apply to Robertson as he needs time to settle into the role due to inexperience at Test level.
International experience has nothing to do with coaching ability, you've either got 'it' or you don't.
It's a skill that is innate & in-built for guys such as Jones, Razor, Galthie, Erasmus, etc..
Foster just doesn't have 'it', the evidence is... he has achieved underwhelming results in every head coaching role across his 20 year coaching career with Waikato, Chiefs, & now the All Blacks...
Kirwan was the head coach of Italy & Japan, he was a poor Blues coach, after coaching Wales for 12 years Gatland lost 8/8 of his Chiefs matches, their worst losing streak ever. Experience is irrelevant in many cases.
What is your evidence (examples welcome) that Robertson has the innate / in built skill to be an international coach?
Maybe, because he has developed a track record that quite comfortably exceeds what Robbie Deans, Wayne Smith, Graham Henry, Dave Rennie, etc.. ever achieved at Super Rugby and provincial level?
Razor is obviously a once in a generation coach, and players such as Izzy Dagg who've played under NZ's greatest coach (Wayne Smith) have stressed that Razor is on his level.
@kiwi_expat said in Foster:
@MajorRage said in Foster:
@kiwi_expat said in Foster:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Foster:
I hope they keep Foster as coach until 2030 its so amusing watching people try to defend him.
It's not people defending Foster. It's people not believing the hype that a coach who's undoubtedly good at SR level but with minimal and patchy experience at international level - and zero experience at Test level - is the magic solution to restore the AB's to the glory days, that NZR knows he will do this but there is some secret illuminati plot within NZR to prevent it happening.
So you end up with stupid arguments that Foster should be sacked as he lost to a team we've never lost to before, but a different criteria should apply to Robertson as he needs time to settle into the role due to inexperience at Test level.
International experience has nothing to do with coaching ability, you've either got 'it' or you don't.
It's a skill that is innate & in-built for guys such as Jones, Razor, Galthie, Erasmus, etc..
Foster just doesn't have 'it', the evidence is... he has achieved underwhelming results in every head coaching role across his 20 year coaching career with Waikato, Chiefs, & now the All Blacks...
Kirwan was the head coach of Italy & Japan, he was a poor Blues coach, after coaching Wales for 12 years Gatland lost 8/8 of his Chiefs matches, their worst losing streak ever. Experience is irrelevant in many cases.
What is your evidence (examples welcome) that Robertson has the innate / in built skill to be an international coach?
Maybe, because he has developed a track record that quite comfortably exceeds what Robbie Deans, Wayne Smith, Graham Henry, Dave Rennie, etc.. ever achieved at Super Rugby and provincial level?
Razor is obviously a once in a generation coach, and players such as Izzy Dagg who've played under NZ's greatest coach (Wayne Smith) have stressed that Razor is on his level.
Don't you think it may have a bit to do with the players and financial reserves he inherited. Crusaders have had the massive benefit of only having to carry two contributing provinces and being able to recruit heavily into the pair of them as players see a clear selection path that others can't offer. Yes Razor is clearly a very good coach. But how would others have done in comparison? The Aussie and Saffer teams were on the slide. They have lost a few matches v the other NZ sides after all.
Crusaders are consistently better than other super teams at playing to the limit of the rules and testing the refs. Having an experienced core of players certainly helps that and is expertly done. But I don't see the masterful attacking plays that you seem to expect of the ABs.
My take is that the Crusaders approach is not so sure to be as effective against the better international coaches. All theoretical but hopefully that explains why some of us are not as sure as you are about coach capability.
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@MajorRage said in Foster:
@kiwi_expat said in Foster:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Foster:
I hope they keep Foster as coach until 2030 its so amusing watching people try to defend him.
It's not people defending Foster. It's people not believing the hype that a coach who's undoubtedly good at SR level but with minimal and patchy experience at international level - and zero experience at Test level - is the magic solution to restore the AB's to the glory days, that NZR knows he will do this but there is some secret illuminati plot within NZR to prevent it happening.
So you end up with stupid arguments that Foster should be sacked as he lost to a team we've never lost to before, but a different criteria should apply to Robertson as he needs time to settle into the role due to inexperience at Test level.
International experience has nothing to do with coaching ability, you've either got 'it' or you don't.
It's a skill that is innate & in-built for guys such as Jones, Razor, Galthie, Erasmus, etc..
Foster just doesn't have 'it', the evidence is... he has achieved underwhelming results in every head coaching role across his 20 year coaching career with Waikato, Chiefs, & now the All Blacks...
Kirwan was the head coach of Italy & Japan, he was a poor Blues coach, after coaching Wales for 12 years Gatland lost 8/8 of his Chiefs matches, their worst losing streak ever. Experience is irrelevant in many cases.
What is your evidence (examples welcome) that Robertson has the innate / in built skill to be an international coach?
Maybe, because he has developed a track record that quite comfortably exceeds what Robbie Deans, Wayne Smith, Graham Henry, Dave Rennie, etc.. ever achieved at Super Rugby and provincial level?
Razor is obviously a once in a generation coach, and players such as Izzy Dagg who've played under NZ's greatest coach (Wayne Smith) have stressed that Razor is on his level.
@kiwi_expat said in Foster:
who've played under NZ's greatest coach (Wayne Smith)
Ironically not the greatest record as an international Head Coach....
So, there is a precedent for a coach coming out of Christchurch with a good provincial record and struggling to make the step up. Which is what I think others are saying.
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@MajorRage said in Foster:
@kiwi_expat said in Foster:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Foster:
I hope they keep Foster as coach until 2030 its so amusing watching people try to defend him.
It's not people defending Foster. It's people not believing the hype that a coach who's undoubtedly good at SR level but with minimal and patchy experience at international level - and zero experience at Test level - is the magic solution to restore the AB's to the glory days, that NZR knows he will do this but there is some secret illuminati plot within NZR to prevent it happening.
So you end up with stupid arguments that Foster should be sacked as he lost to a team we've never lost to before, but a different criteria should apply to Robertson as he needs time to settle into the role due to inexperience at Test level.
International experience has nothing to do with coaching ability, you've either got 'it' or you don't.
It's a skill that is innate & in-built for guys such as Jones, Razor, Galthie, Erasmus, etc..
Foster just doesn't have 'it', the evidence is... he has achieved underwhelming results in every head coaching role across his 20 year coaching career with Waikato, Chiefs, & now the All Blacks...
Kirwan was the head coach of Italy & Japan, he was a poor Blues coach, after coaching Wales for 12 years Gatland lost 8/8 of his Chiefs matches, their worst losing streak ever. Experience is irrelevant in many cases.
What is your evidence (examples welcome) that Robertson has the innate / in built skill to be an international coach?
Maybe, because he has developed a track record that quite comfortably exceeds what Robbie Deans, Wayne Smith, Graham Henry, Dave Rennie, etc.. ever achieved at Super Rugby and provincial level?
Razor is obviously a once in a generation coach, and players such as Izzy Dagg who've played under NZ's greatest coach (Wayne Smith) have stressed that Razor is on his level.
@kiwi_expat said in Foster:
@MajorRage said in Foster:
@kiwi_expat said in Foster:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Foster:
I hope they keep Foster as coach until 2030 its so amusing watching people try to defend him.
It's not people defending Foster. It's people not believing the hype that a coach who's undoubtedly good at SR level but with minimal and patchy experience at international level - and zero experience at Test level - is the magic solution to restore the AB's to the glory days, that NZR knows he will do this but there is some secret illuminati plot within NZR to prevent it happening.
So you end up with stupid arguments that Foster should be sacked as he lost to a team we've never lost to before, but a different criteria should apply to Robertson as he needs time to settle into the role due to inexperience at Test level.
International experience has nothing to do with coaching ability, you've either got 'it' or you don't.
It's a skill that is innate & in-built for guys such as Jones, Razor, Galthie, Erasmus, etc..
Foster just doesn't have 'it', the evidence is... he has achieved underwhelming results in every head coaching role across his 20 year coaching career with Waikato, Chiefs, & now the All Blacks...
Kirwan was the head coach of Italy & Japan, he was a poor Blues coach, after coaching Wales for 12 years Gatland lost 8/8 of his Chiefs matches, their worst losing streak ever. Experience is irrelevant in many cases.
What is your evidence (examples welcome) that Robertson has the innate / in built skill to be an international coach?
Maybe, because he has developed a track record that quite comfortably exceeds what Robbie Deans, Wayne Smith, Graham Henry, Dave Rennie, etc.. ever achieved at Super Rugby and provincial level?
Razor is obviously a once in a generation coach, and players such as Izzy Dagg who've played under NZ's greatest coach (Wayne Smith) have stressed that Razor is on his level.
All jokes aside is he your Dad or something?
This isn’t even a debate or discussion. The level you put him on, with NO international results is beyond absurd.
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@Old-Samurai-Jack said in Foster:
It is hard to pinpoint the problem with this current group. The talent is there, they try their hearts out, they have good support, but what happens on the pitch is just not good enough or ruthless enough to get the job done IMO (consistently win against top-tier opposition and win the World Cup). Here is my theory and I think Carlos sees it as well. It seems that the ABs camp has become too comfortable and isolated. They are the "AB family". That absolute ruthlessness and desire to get that 1 or 2 % to get over the line is not there anymore. If they don't play well, and there are few consequences. Once upon a time one bad performance and you were out of the team, possibly forever. Now we have players still there that can be terribly off the pace (Sam Cane is the classic example). Go away to Japan, no worries, you are automatically back despite not showing you are better than others. They are consistently answering their critics by saying they only worry about what is happening inside the camp, etc, etc. Not all bad things of course, maybe it is even a sign of the times and I am a grump, but just maybe it has led to inadequate performances.
Hence I really think a "clean out" is what the ABs have needed since 2019.A lot to agree with there.
I think I missed Carlos’ comments, anyone link easily?
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@kiwi_expat said in Foster:
@MajorRage said in Foster:
@kiwi_expat said in Foster:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Foster:
I hope they keep Foster as coach until 2030 its so amusing watching people try to defend him.
It's not people defending Foster. It's people not believing the hype that a coach who's undoubtedly good at SR level but with minimal and patchy experience at international level - and zero experience at Test level - is the magic solution to restore the AB's to the glory days, that NZR knows he will do this but there is some secret illuminati plot within NZR to prevent it happening.
So you end up with stupid arguments that Foster should be sacked as he lost to a team we've never lost to before, but a different criteria should apply to Robertson as he needs time to settle into the role due to inexperience at Test level.
International experience has nothing to do with coaching ability, you've either got 'it' or you don't.
It's a skill that is innate & in-built for guys such as Jones, Razor, Galthie, Erasmus, etc..
Foster just doesn't have 'it', the evidence is... he has achieved underwhelming results in every head coaching role across his 20 year coaching career with Waikato, Chiefs, & now the All Blacks...
Kirwan was the head coach of Italy & Japan, he was a poor Blues coach, after coaching Wales for 12 years Gatland lost 8/8 of his Chiefs matches, their worst losing streak ever. Experience is irrelevant in many cases.
What is your evidence (examples welcome) that Robertson has the innate / in built skill to be an international coach?
Maybe, because he has developed a track record that quite comfortably exceeds what Robbie Deans, Wayne Smith, Graham Henry, Dave Rennie, etc.. ever achieved at Super Rugby and provincial level?
Razor is obviously a once in a generation coach, and players such as Izzy Dagg who've played under NZ's greatest coach (Wayne Smith) have stressed that Razor is on his level.
Don't you think it may have a bit to do with the players and financial reserves he inherited. Crusaders have had the massive benefit of only having to carry two contributing provinces and being able to recruit heavily into the pair of them as players see a clear selection path that others can't offer. Yes Razor is clearly a very good coach. But how would others have done in comparison? The Aussie and Saffer teams were on the slide. They have lost a few matches v the other NZ sides after all.
Crusaders are consistently better than other super teams at playing to the limit of the rules and testing the refs. Having an experienced core of players certainly helps that and is expertly done. But I don't see the masterful attacking plays that you seem to expect of the ABs.
My take is that the Crusaders approach is not so sure to be as effective against the better international coaches. All theoretical but hopefully that explains why some of us are not as sure as you are about coach capability.
@ARHS You can't fluke 6 titles in 6 years - it took Robbie Deans 9 years to win 5 titles.
Winning percentages of NZ Super Rugby coaches (more than 30 matches):
Razor 85%, Henry 82%, Boyd 76%, Smith 69%, Rennie 67%, Blackadder 63%
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Ah the 70's a great time to be growing up supporting the AB's NOT!!!
I didn't bother replying to the original post that caused this little diversion as I thought @booboo summed it up nicely.
Add to the similarities it came after an era of game changing global dominance, by a team stacked with all time legends coached by one of the greats.
Here's that decade's record Won 24 - Drew 2 Lost 15. Nine of the wins were against Oz, Ireland and Scotland who were the equivalents of today's Argentina I guess.
By comparison Fozzie's era has been a golden age ...
Even the "good" years had their disasters. Cornelson's (father of the Japan player) 4 tries, the Bastille Day Massacre, 1st Test v France '77 etc etc
I was at the cornelson 4 tries game and reeves French team flogging us at eden park with running rugby as a teenager.
It was a bit like now in that it felt like we were stuck in an older style game plan that doesn’t appear to be as effective as it used to be
@kiwiinmelb said in Foster:
It was a bit like now in that it felt like we were stuck in an older style game plan that doesn’t appear to be as effective as it used to be
Yeah, the world had moved on and it took New Zealand rugby nearly 5 years to cotton on and realise that just sacking the coach didn't work and serious change was needed - the ascent to better heights took a few years more.
Another parallel with today was a tour by a AB XV to Argentina and Uruguay in '76 which developed a good number of bloody good players and one of the great captains in Mourie.
I feel old....
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@kiwi_expat said in Foster:
@MajorRage said in Foster:
@kiwi_expat said in Foster:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Foster:
I hope they keep Foster as coach until 2030 its so amusing watching people try to defend him.
It's not people defending Foster. It's people not believing the hype that a coach who's undoubtedly good at SR level but with minimal and patchy experience at international level - and zero experience at Test level - is the magic solution to restore the AB's to the glory days, that NZR knows he will do this but there is some secret illuminati plot within NZR to prevent it happening.
So you end up with stupid arguments that Foster should be sacked as he lost to a team we've never lost to before, but a different criteria should apply to Robertson as he needs time to settle into the role due to inexperience at Test level.
International experience has nothing to do with coaching ability, you've either got 'it' or you don't.
It's a skill that is innate & in-built for guys such as Jones, Razor, Galthie, Erasmus, etc..
Foster just doesn't have 'it', the evidence is... he has achieved underwhelming results in every head coaching role across his 20 year coaching career with Waikato, Chiefs, & now the All Blacks...
Kirwan was the head coach of Italy & Japan, he was a poor Blues coach, after coaching Wales for 12 years Gatland lost 8/8 of his Chiefs matches, their worst losing streak ever. Experience is irrelevant in many cases.
What is your evidence (examples welcome) that Robertson has the innate / in built skill to be an international coach?
Maybe, because he has developed a track record that quite comfortably exceeds what Robbie Deans, Wayne Smith, Graham Henry, Dave Rennie, etc.. ever achieved at Super Rugby and provincial level?
Razor is obviously a once in a generation coach, and players such as Izzy Dagg who've played under NZ's greatest coach (Wayne Smith) have stressed that Razor is on his level.
Don't you think it may have a bit to do with the players and financial reserves he inherited. Crusaders have had the massive benefit of only having to carry two contributing provinces and being able to recruit heavily into the pair of them as players see a clear selection path that others can't offer. Yes Razor is clearly a very good coach. But how would others have done in comparison? The Aussie and Saffer teams were on the slide. They have lost a few matches v the other NZ sides after all.
Crusaders are consistently better than other super teams at playing to the limit of the rules and testing the refs. Having an experienced core of players certainly helps that and is expertly done. But I don't see the masterful attacking plays that you seem to expect of the ABs.
My take is that the Crusaders approach is not so sure to be as effective against the better international coaches. All theoretical but hopefully that explains why some of us are not as sure as you are about coach capability.
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@kiwiinmelb said in Foster:
It was a bit like now in that it felt like we were stuck in an older style game plan that doesn’t appear to be as effective as it used to be
Yeah, the world had moved on and it took New Zealand rugby nearly 5 years to cotton on and realise that just sacking the coach didn't work and serious change was needed - the ascent to better heights took a few years more.
Another parallel with today was a tour by a AB XV to Argentina and Uruguay in '76 which developed a good number of bloody good players and one of the great captains in Mourie.
I feel old....
@Victor-Meldrew said in Foster:
Yeah, the world had moved on and it took New Zealand rugby nearly 5 years to cotton on and realise that just sacking the coach didn't work and serious change was needed
Sure they tried something different that time, and it worked (assuming you are talking about re-signing Henry & Co) thats not to say it is the right call this time, as right now, it does not appear so where we stumble from one crash to a near miss to a good result.
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@ARHS You can't fluke 6 titles in 6 years - it took Robbie Deans 9 years to win 5 titles.
Winning percentages of NZ Super Rugby coaches (more than 30 matches):
Razor 85%, Henry 82%, Boyd 76%, Smith 69%, Rennie 67%, Blackadder 63%
@kiwi_expat said in Foster:
Smith 69%,
Is this a different Smith to the "NZ's greatest coach (Wayne Smith) " you mentioned previously?
Asking for a friend....
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@kiwi_expat said in Foster:
Smith 69%,
Is this a different Smith to the "NZ's greatest coach (Wayne Smith) " you mentioned previously?
Asking for a friend....
@Victor-Meldrew that's only his Crusaders record, the professor was also responsible for Chiefs' best ever seasons, Smith left after winning 2 titles (2012-1st, 2013-1st) and Rennie could only manage a modest (5th-2014, 5th-2015, 6th-2016, 6th-2017).
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Foster:
Yeah, the world had moved on and it took New Zealand rugby nearly 5 years to cotton on and realise that just sacking the coach didn't work and serious change was needed
Sure they tried something different that time, and it worked (assuming you are talking about re-signing Henry & Co) thats not to say it is the right call this time, as right now, it does not appear so where we stumble from one crash to a near miss to a good result.
@taniwharugby said in Foster:
(assuming you are talking about re-signing Henry & Co)
I was actually talking about the bloody awful AB teams and the even worse succession of wonder-coaches of my 1970's youth, which make Foster's reign look like a veritable golden age.
There really is an uncanny resemblance to today's All Blacks drama and, Foster aside, I really don't want to go thru that shit again.
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I'm on the Razor bandwagon.
I used to think that if you had the cattle then any vaguely competent coach could get them across the line - but, Rennie (and Smith) vs Foster and then Razor vs Toddy Blackadder convinced me I was thinking bullshit.
Instantaneous improvement to repeated victory.
I reckon under Fozzie we're getting similar results to what we'd be getting under Toddy. Decent people, competent coaches, trying their best - but, they just don't quite have the magic touch.
Razor may not be able to work his magic with the ABs post-2023 (see Rennie and the Wallabies), but I reckon we'd be silly not to give him the shot.
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@Victor-Meldrew that's only his Crusaders record, the professor was also responsible for Chiefs' best ever seasons, Smith left after winning 2 titles (2012-1st, 2013-1st) and Rennie could only manage a modest (5th-2014, 5th-2015, 6th-2016, 6th-2017).
@kiwi_expat Smith was still involved with the Chiefs in 2014.
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I'm on the Razor bandwagon.
I used to think that if you had the cattle then any vaguely competent coach could get them across the line - but, Rennie (and Smith) vs Foster and then Razor vs Toddy Blackadder convinced me I was thinking bullshit.
Instantaneous improvement to repeated victory.
I reckon under Fozzie we're getting similar results to what we'd be getting under Toddy. Decent people, competent coaches, trying their best - but, they just don't quite have the magic touch.
Razor may not be able to work his magic with the ABs post-2023 (see Rennie and the Wallabies), but I reckon we'd be silly not to give him the shot.
So, there is a precedent for a coach coming out of Christchurch with a good provincial record
Both Wayne Smith and Scott Robertson were born, raised & schooled in Mooloo country
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@Victor-Meldrew that's only his Crusaders record, the professor was also responsible for Chiefs' best ever seasons, Smith left after winning 2 titles (2012-1st, 2013-1st) and Rennie could only manage a modest (5th-2014, 5th-2015, 6th-2016, 6th-2017).
Smith's record in Test rugby was outstanding at Assistant Coach level but a bit of a failure as Head coach.
But I think you're right in arguing (as others have argued and you have just pointed out with Smith), that Head Coach success at Super level isn't a sure-fire indicator of success at Test level.
