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I will be focusing on our backrow and midfield, as these are two key structural elements of our team that need to be settled asap. I'll say it again because it annoys me that it's not happening. I'm a big Frizell fan, I think he deserves to be the incumbent-ish.. but Akira showed enough in his shor...

Shanky’s mate wrote: ↑Thu Oct 15, 2020 1:04 am

coldtowel3478 wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 11:19 pm

Mr Bungle wrote: ↑Wed Oct 14, 2020 11:08 pm

I heard him at a luncheon a year or two back and he couldn't talk more highly of Rennie. Our best technical coach with a great team ethos.

I'd say Tony Brown is NZ's best technical coach.. wouldn't you?

Really

Ok, why not? care to elaborate?

Fascinating video. Basically Graham Henry says Dave Rennie should be the NZ Coach. Wait till Foster finds out... Though I think it premature to say Rennie has turned Aussie around after one match. Remember Perth last year... I heard him at a luncheon a year or two back and he couldn't talk more hig...

Mauger had the final say in selections, so I've heard from those in Highlanders camp. Nevertheless Browny did an admirable repair job to patch-up the leaks in the SS Mauger and keep the Highlanders competitive in SRA. When Azza was Crusaders attack coach the game-plan consisted of shoveling the ball...

didn't exactly excel this year in his first assistant gig without Jamie Joseph That's laughable. The Highlander's record with Brown in charge of the game-planning is: 2014: Quarter-Finalists (1st play-off berth since 2002), 2015: Champions (11/15) wins, 2016: (11/15) wins, 2017: (11/15) wins. That'...

To be clear, I think Brown is a very, very good assistant coach. But to call him the second best active NZ coach behind Robertson is laughable - Rennie, Schmidt, Gatland, Joseph are all well ahead in my books. Tony Brown has the most intelligent rugby mind of any active NZ coach, that is clear. As ...

didn't exactly excel this year in his first assistant gig without Jamie Joseph That's laughable. The Highlander's record with Brown in charge of the game-planning is: 2014: Quarter-Finalists (1st play-off berth since 2002), 2015: Champions (11/15) wins, 2016: (11/15) wins, 2017: (11/15) wins. That'...

Surely if Tony Brown is half as good as his fluffers claim he is, then he'll take over from Mauger and lead the Highlanders to a couple of titles? How good do you think Tony Brown is? Brah, the Highlanders literally went from second-last in 2013 (14th/15) to the playoffs in 2014 (the 1st year Brown...

Hansen always had his favourites (Mackenzie and Barrett at 10) being his worst tendency (as this ridded the team of stable, level-headed 10 who could organise and direct the backline - instead of hogging the ball and running/crabbing sideways away from all support players like an under 9's team) and...

Margin__Walker wrote: ↑Fri Aug 21, 2020 9:52 am I guess there comes a point in every coach's career when they want to work with the very best players.

bwahahahaha

As well as being appointed coach of the Junior All Blacks by Steve Tew in 2005, Foster also co-coached an All Blacks trial team in 2007. As we go further back into the past, the more co-incidences appear that can't simply be dismissed as luck. We can hereby confidently assume that Ian Foster was bei...

So as well as coaching the Barbarians with Robertson, Deans also brought in Razor as his forwards coach when he was coaching the World XV in 2018. It seems their relationship is more significant than previously thought. https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/international/107316532/crusaders-coach-scot...

Not sure how to respond to this. Henry and Hansen won the war. Deans was excommunicated from NZ rugby and they've been in control of the All Blacks since 2004. Hmm, if Foster wasn't appointed head coach of the All Blacks last November you mightn't have a case for that, but here we are. I don't thin...

Henry, Hansen (forwards), Smith (defense), Foster (attack), Cron (set-piece), Grant Fox (selector), Nic Gill (S&C coach), Darren Shand (Manager) Deans, Cotter (forwards), Razor (defense), MacDonald (attack), Hammetuer (set-piece), Rob Penney (selector), Ashley Jones (S&C coach), Tony Thorpe ...

Warren to go 0-8 on this one, Canes by 10+ :grin: Why do you hate Warren so much? Was a great coach for Wales but was an arrogant sod and a deeply unlikable man who coached an (albeit) effective but dreadful brand of rugby to watch. Loving his a*se getting handed to him without Shuan Edwards doing ...

Let's see if Jacobson can work his way back into AB contention in NPC, He's got a big queue to jump so far.

Gallagher Chiefs: 1. Ollie Norris (3) 2. Samisoni Taukei’aho (35) 3. Nepo Laulala (40) 4. Naitoa Ah Kuoi (11) 5. Mitchell Brown (44) 6. Luke Jacobson (24) 7. Sam Cane (121) © 8. Pita Gus Sowakula (27) 9. Brad Weber (84) 10. Kaleb Trask (8) 11. Sean Wainui (37) 12. Alex Nankivell (31) 13. Anton Liene...

This weekend’s Hurricanes team to take on the Chiefs at Sky Stadium is: 1. Ben May 2. Dane Coles [cc] 3. Tyrel Lomax 4. James Blackwell 5. Scott Scrafton 6. Reed Prinsep 7. Du’Plessis Kirifi 8. Ardie Savea 9. TJ Perenara [cc] 10. Jackson Garden-Bachop 11. Wes Goosen 12. Vince Aso 13. Peter Umaga-Jen...

Right. You wouldn't want to dig down into the data of the players available... Sure. In 2017 only Scott Robertson could have scraped together a decent front row given Owen Franks, Cody Taylor, Joe Moody and Wyatt Crockett. Only he could have forged a locking combination from the inexperienced trio ...

coldtowel still hellbent on insisting the record of a proven international coach should be discounted based on another coach’s success at Super level. I thought I already showed you a comparison of their overall coaching history. Do you need to look at it again? Robertson clearly has a better overa...

Robertson had a team full of ABs, etc Gee.. aren't you riddled with cliches? Definitely hadn't heard that one before. Again more mis-information. It's not Robertson's fault that he developed overwhelmingly the most All Blacks from his Super Rugby squad than every other NZ Super Rugby coach during t...

Still, for all the contortions being made to downplay the importance of the player resources available to Robertson in regard to his success, the coaching brilliance that got Japan to the quarter final of the RWC has been barely acknowledged here. If you really want to get into the semantics and go...

Still, for all the contortions being made to downplay the importance of the player resources available to Robertson in regard to his success, the coaching brilliance that got Japan to the quarter final of the RWC has been barely acknowledged here. If you really want to get into the semantics and go...

You've cherry picked a couple of young but immensely talented players, and misrepresented others (Scott Barrett was a Crusader since 2014 and already an All Black before 2017). But look, I'm not going to suggest that Robertson isn't a good coach. I'm willing to admit that he is, while you paint Jam...

Anyway, here's the team of nameless weaklings and helpless waifs that only Scott Robertson could have guided to success in 2017 Crusaders 15 David Havili, 14 Israel Dagg, 13 Jack Goodhue, 12 Ryan Crotty, 11 Seta Tamanivalu, 10 Richie Mo’unga, 9 Bryn Hall, 8 Kieran Read, 7 Matt Todd, 6 Jordan Taufua...

Ymx wrote: ↑Sun Jul 12, 2020 8:41 am Is Wayne Smith ever coming back to rugby?

What’s the latest on his condition?

Would love to see him back in the mix or at the very least advising. But not to the detriment of his health.

He's the currently Director of Rugby for Kobelco Steelers.

I have been lurking this forum for the last three weeks and I had to bite after being absolutely dismayed from reading the amount of misinformation being thrown around from FuijiKiwi regarding Scott Robertson on here. So I'll make my first long post on this forum dedicated to this topic. Robertson ...

I have been lurking this forum for the last three weeks and I had to bite after being absolutely dismayed from reading the amount of misinformation being thrown around from FuijiKiwi regarding Scott Robertson on here. So I'll make my first long post on this forum dedicated to this topic. Robertson i...

I'd love for Billy Harmon to be dropped from the squad. Tom Christie has been unsighted in Super Rugby Aotearoa, but I think long term he is going to be a much better player. I rate Scott Robertson extremely highly as a selector, but in this instance I just think he has got it wrong. Tom Christie w...