Highlanders 2021 coaching staff
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@kiwi_expat where are you getting your intel?
@Siam @Bones already worked it out, Walden has been playing in a McKay or a collins costume
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@Kiwiwomble good point, Highlanders could be real benefactors of the COVID situation if international rugby isn't able to resume over next 18 months. You've got to wonder whether this 6 nations tournament with Japan and Fiji still goes ahead later this year..
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@Kiwiwomble more like Sio Tomkinson. McKay wasn't getting selected for the longest while, he'd only started 3 matches in three years since Mauger signed him in 2018.
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@kiwi_expat said in Highlanders 2021 coaching staff:
@Kiwiwomble more like Sio Tomkinson. McKay wasn't getting selected for the longest while, he'd only started 3 matches in three years since Mauger signed him in 2018.
Well yeah, and those 3 matches he'd been pretty ordinary. Walden disappears off the face of the earth and all of a sudden McKay is a gun....go figure....
Actual footage of McKay being kidnapped.
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@Stargazer said in Highlanders 2021 coaching staff:
I wonder whether he doesn't get any game time because he's signed somewhere else.
That would be a very petty stance to take, especially when you consider the form in the midfield and the injuries. It would make me distrust Mauger even more. I would hope there's more meat to it than that, but I wouldn't be surprised if not.
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just promote Hammer to the top job
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@kiwi_expat said in Highlanders 2021 coaching staff:
Mauger's problem is said to be man-management and selection related, sources have indicated there is increasing unrest among the Highlanders players with regards to Mauger's contradictory methods, he is alleged to say one thing one week then change his mind. Players are frustrated to find themselves on the outer after being selected one week then suddenly dropped again the next.
Do you think the last game might've changed attitudes towards Mauger?
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@Duluth His selections are finally becoming consistent. For the most part Mauger has his best XV sorted and is sticking with a core group of players, which is a good sign. I'm still hesitant about his coaching as the improvements this year can be more attributed to Brown, rather than Mauger himself.
What we know is that Tony Brown has been in charge of the game-planning/strategy this year, not Mauger. This is the most significant area in which the Highlanders have stepped up this year. They've been playing smarter rugby.
The strategy the Highlanders implemented this year was much the same as what Brown used with Japan at the rugby world cup.
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@kiwi_expat said in Highlanders 2021 coaching staff:
@Duluth His selections are finally becoming consistent. For the most part Mauger has his best XV sorted and is sticking with a core group of players, which is a good sign. I'm still hesitant about his coaching as the improvements this year can be more attributed to Brown, rather than Mauger himself.
What we know is that Tony Brown has been in charge of the game-planning/strategy this year, not Mauger. This is the most significant area in which the Highlanders have stepped up this year. They've been playing smarter rugby.
The strategy the Highlanders implemented this year was much the same as what Brown used with Japan at the rugby world cup.
Tony, if you want the job, we're not really the ones to be campaigning...
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@Snowy all jokes aside, it is really baffling considering sio has become a bit of a card magnet and before collins moved our midfield was really struggling
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@Kiwiwomble It was tongue in cheek, but I agree with you. Collins to centre does seem to have been a bit of an inspired choice though. A full back moving to centre...brave stuff around here.
it keeps giving, funny...and also quite relevant rugby chat