Still talking about Foster
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Very touching how Ardie reached out when he was at his lowest point. The players really had his back, Gilbert Enokas statement too was an incredible endorsement.
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@canefan said in Still talking about Foster:
@gt12 said in Still talking about Foster:
Anyone bought it? Apparently he explains that he actually wanted Joseph and Brown on his original team.
So they turned him down?
I dunno, that's why I'm asking if someone has read it
From a post on FB:
His preferred coaching duo—Jamie Joseph and Tony Brown—slipped away during New Zealand Rugby’s glacial appointment process.
What he got instead were last-minute substitutes in John Plumtree and Brad Mooar, talented but not quite ready for the furnace of All Blacks expectations.
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Yeah - he explains his frustrations that the process took so long after the 2019 RWC and believed it should have been concluded in “days”.
He had agreement from those two to come over. Joseph would have been forwards coach.
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@zedsdeadbaby said in Still talking about Foster:
Yeah - he explains his frustrations that the process took so long after the 2019 RWC and believed it should have been concluded in “days”.
He had agreement from those two to come over. Joseph would have been forwards coach.
Another mark against the NZRU board.
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@zedsdeadbaby said in Still talking about Foster:
Yeah - he explains his frustrations that the process took so long after the 2019 RWC and believed it should have been concluded in “days”.
He had agreement from those two to come over. Joseph would have been forwards coach.
Talk about a sliding door moment. JJ manages the forwards, TB manages the backs..... 😔
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Interesting book. Easy read. I think he was still probably a flawed coach but didn’t have a lot go his way and NZR’s power brokers don’t come off looking great (albeit from a biased POV) - whatever you thought of the tenure.
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@zedsdeadbaby said in Still talking about Foster:
Yeah - he explains his frustrations that the process took so long after the 2019 RWC and believed it should have been concluded in “days”.
He had agreement from those two to come over. Joseph would have been forwards coach.
um that would have been a good coaching team methinks.
I've been a Foster as coach critic but I've also said as a team manager type he seems to have been quite popular with the players. And as more a coach-manager than a strategy / tactics coach .. oh well, we'll never know now.
'Never felt so alone': Foster lifts lid on battles with NZ Rugby bosses
