Emotions in NZ are in turmoil after the AB raiding party to “The Republic” ended in disaster.
We know we’re shit at the moment, but the solution is not available to us, so we’re non-plussed. I just don’t know what we can do. Well…I do know, but it won’t happen.
I can accept players fucking up as long as they know they fucked up. But when the coaches come on afterward and defend the abysmal tactics used within the AB’s 22 and on occasion right on or even behind their own tryline, then you know we are just completely screwed.
We’re screwed. Utterly and completely. We can’t get rid of Henry and co, and we have to, yet we can’t.
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Possibly the solution is for the ABs to disregard the gameplay and play something sensible on the field, but it’s a hard thing to disregard a coaches instructions when you’re a rotation player depending on the coaches goodwill for selection.
Listening to Wayne Smith on ReUnion last night defending the ABs and talking about them being better for the experience…saying we “executed” only 30% of things well on the day and wait till we can do 40% well…no mate no. Against internation pressure there is only so much helter-skelter attack can pull off. It’s high risk low percentage and the time and place for it is when you have a “space” safety margin. Then it’s worth a shot. But not for these coaches, blind to the limitations of human physiology on skill execution under pressure. That’s why we are truly screwed.
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The need of these guys to try and reinvent rugby tactics is a symptom of reaching their use by date. All coaches have one. In my opinion it’s four years. After that they’ve run through their ideas…I don’t care who they are…and it’s time to go. But we’re stuck with these guys.
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I’m sure you watched our performances over the last two weekends, Stampie. Haven’t your retinas been scorched by the true horror of the awfulness? I had to watched through my fingers while keeping a spew bucket close by.
The Boks are looking ominously good, though. Tri-Nations clean sweep?
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I agree with most of that. Even after the two losses last year, you could see that the team were still getting some things right and just needed combinations to click before coming right again. I have no confidence we can do the same this year.
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It’d seem the best thing to do, with an eye on 2011, would be to make wholesale changes and use the rest of the tournament to blood prospects. I don’t think promising defeats would be tolerated by the Kiwi public, though – they’re already calling the team shit after a win and two losses. Ominously like England 2004-07, where a clearly flawed team was persisted with in the hope of saving face. In saying that, they did somehow manage a World Cup final.
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The first sign of distress was the loss to France. We were slightly reassured by the win the next week when the tight five put in a better performance.
Second sign was the ABYSMAL performance against Italy. Again somewhat muted by a better performance against the Wallabies, but everyone acknowledges that we were lucky not to concede an insurmoutable lead early on.
Third sign has been the lamentable tactics in South Africa, twice in a row.
We’re not giving up on the All Blacks. They can do it. But they need the proper game plan from the coaches, and that’s what they’re not getting. Worse, the coaches show zero comprehension that the game plan is badly at fault. What can we do? All we can do is agitate for the coaches to go, but until they do (or until they have a Road to Damascus vision instructing them to mend the error of their ways) they we will continue to struggle, and will lose games to the top teams while looking mediocre (albeit still winning) against lesser teams with a decent forward pack and a good chasing game.
Eish, ek kry nie die kort beskrywing in nie
Dit moet lees
Emotions in NZ are in turmoil after the AB raiding party to “The Republic” ended in disaster.
The AB coaching staff is under severe pressure from angry and disillusioned supporters to resign. Recent posts on a popular Australasian website makes for interesting reading
Janne they are struggling to cope with losses against the Bokke!
SAB
Eerste post moet “Jan” bevat!
“there is only so much helter-skelter attack can pull off. It’s high risk low percentage and the time and place for it is when you have a “space” safety margin”
We know exactly what this blogger meant. We’ve been there mate! 🙂
hier is ‘n ou grappie vir julle JANNE…..
Vanoggend terwyl ek (minding my own business-as men normally do) op die snelweg ry, kyk ek oor my skouer en sien ‘n vrou hier langs my …
in ‘n splinternuwe Polo, met haar gesig tot teenaan die tru-spieltjie gedruk, besig om maskara aan te sit.
Kan jy dit glo?
Ek het net vir ‘n paar sekondes weggekyk, maar toe ek my weer kon kry, is sy halfpad oor in my baan, nog steeds besig met haar blerrie maskara.
Nou kyk, as ‘n man skrik ek normaalweg nie maklik nie. Maar die vroumens het my so die horries gegee dat ek my elektriese skeermes uit my hand laat val het, wat op sy beurt die “Steak & Kidney pie” uit my ander hand laat glip het en ‘n gemors op die “gearlever” laat los het. In die hele deurmekaarspul – terwyl ek die kar probeer stuur met my knie -glip die selfoon toe weg van my oor, drop in die vuurwarm Wimpy koffie tussen my bene, verbrand vir grootseun en die tweeling dat ek gil van pyn en natuurlik my sigaret voor in my hemp laat val.
Die gevolg: my selfoon in sy moer, my broek papnat, my nasaat masjien uit aksie vir wie weet hoe lank, my beste hemp vol gate gebrand en ek het boonop ‘n belangrike oorsese oproep verloor.
Blerrie vroumens-bestuurders…………………
#1 Maar ek moet sukkel met julle weepees en bulle, ag nee man!
5 EEE
Ons ry nie so in die Kaap nie 🙂
In die Kaap ry die manne trein! 😉
6 Koos
Nou maar stuur vir my en Supa ‘n mailtjie met tips dan hoef jy nie so te sukkel nie 🙂
Hoe voel jy oor jou span se kanse die naweek? Of moet ek nie vra nie? 🙂
8 AB
Nie sommer nie! Te veel skollies op die treine hehehe
Ek moet darem sê, ek voel gemakliker om in Gauteng te bestuur waar die mense nie poer-poer nie. Lank daar gebly en toe ek in die Kaap aankom was my senuwees klaar om in ‘n dorpie soos Wellington te ry. Veral die ou vrouens met pers hare en poedels en flikkerligte wat verkeerd om bedraad is, was ‘n nagmerrie 🙂
Hier is nog enetjie hehehehehe
Die vrou stap die boekwinkel in en vra vir die assistant, Mev. Het julle dalk die boek “Die Man, die Hoof van die huis”?
Die vrou kyk so oor haar brilletjie en se’ – “Mevrou, gaan loer maar daar by die fkkn Fee verhale”.
Hellooo
Hellooooo GBS, hoe lyk dinge?
Trippels, waar verkoop hulle daai sigaretjies?
New World Pharmacy., Hirsch’ etc….is jy in Pretoria
12 GBS
Jis Ja
Lekker laat gelê en poepruik vanoggend nê!
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Ja eks in Elarduspark,in die bed met n bronchites, maar wil gou erens naby ry om die goed te kry.
#17 Menlyn is die naaste aan jou – New World Discount Stores…….
#17 AB, jy maak nog nie vark geluidjies nie nê? hehehehehe
EEE Ek ook op die varkgriep medisyne, net vir ingeval!
21 my vriendin by die werk het varkgriep en sy en haar gesin is onder kwarantyn van Saterdag af
Hellloooooooooooooooo
Hellooooooooo Ed, Edd & Eddie !
#23 Hello GBS, lekker en daar my maat.
Kyk gou na die nuwe plug in. “User Resolution Logger” Doen basies ‘n vol analisys van iemand wat blog, net eenkeer. So sal dit makliker wees om die gebandes geban te hou.
24 – Ed,
Ek check gou !
24 – Ed,
Wanner laas was jy op my Test Site ?
24 – Ed,
Lyk of die Resolution Logger net Screen Resolutions van Visitors log….
Gaan kyk na die “Ban Hammer” Plugin !!
#26 Ek kyk elkedag op jou test site. Lyk goed.
#27, ek gaan gou ban hammer uit check.
#28 en #24 agge nee gaan julle nou regtig vir Lillith, Transie, Langenhoven en natuurlik my favourite, Dawn, ban 😆
29 – EEE,
Nie NET ban nie… ons gaan hulle PERMANENTE SKADE maak !
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