Foster, Robertson etc
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@taniwharugby ask your son bro! that's young'un speak for going hard and getting the W!
I agree with @Billy-Tell this was a hurting team having a big game. A REALLY big game it has to be said, but I totally get they were playing for Fozzie, themselves, and us of course. The risks are too high to think this is the turning of a corner. The comment about no decisions till they are home and around support networks is telling imo.
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@taniwharugby said in Foster:
“He has been under a lot of pressure, and I know Foz (Foster) doesn’t want to make it about himself, but I just want everyone to know that all the players have got his back. He’s a great coach, he’s got great coaches beside him, and we back him 100 percent. I hope everyone that reads this backs us because we are going to get it.”
Asked if Foster deserved to stay in charge, Savea’s response: “Like I said, he’s my coach. That’s it.”What are they going to get?
Foster's back I think. The sentiment is really strong and complicates any Foster decision by NZR.
“'That's my coach, I back him 100 per cent'.....He has been under a lot of pressure, and I know Foz (Foster) doesn’t want to make it about himself, but I just want everyone to know that all the players have got his back. He’s a great coach, he’s got great coaches beside him, and we back him 100 percent. I hope everyone that reads this backs us because we are going to get it.”
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@Paekakboyz said in Foster:
@taniwharugby ask your son bro! that's young'un speak for going hard and getting the W!
I agree with @Billy-Tell this was a hurting team having a big game. A REALLY big game it has to be said, but I totally get they were playing for Fozzie, themselves, and us of course. The risks are too high to think this is the turning of a corner. The comment about no decisions till they are home and around support networks is telling imo.
Agree it's way too early to say a corner has been turned or if it is even a start. But if Ardie's comments about Foster are an indicator of team sentiment, any changes around the Head Coach are going to be perilous for NZR to navigate unless Foster himself decides to step down.
It would have been way better if he had gone after the Ireland loss but that ship has now sailed. Bit of a mess.
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@Victor-Meldrew
He backs him 100% and will back whoever they choose in the future 100%.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Foster:
@taniwharugby said in Foster:
“He has been under a lot of pressure, and I know Foz (Foster) doesn’t want to make it about himself, but I just want everyone to know that all the players have got his back. He’s a great coach, he’s got great coaches beside him, and we back him 100 percent. I hope everyone that reads this backs us because we are going to get it.”
Asked if Foster deserved to stay in charge, Savea’s response: “Like I said, he’s my coach. That’s it.”What are they going to get?
Foster's back I think. The sentiment is really strong and complicates any Foster decision by NZR.
“'That's my coach, I back him 100 per cent'.....He has been under a lot of pressure, and I know Foz (Foster) doesn’t want to make it about himself, but I just want everyone to know that all the players have got his back. He’s a great coach, he’s got great coaches beside him, and we back him 100 percent. I hope everyone that reads this backs us because we are going to get it.”
Ardie is such a nice fella.
I wonder how many of the rest of the squad feel this way ?
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@Paekakboyz yea I assumed that was what he meant, especially if that line was said prior to the match, but after the win, just made less sense.
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@Victor-Meldrew it's hard to tell how much the players will take on themselves about how things have gone. If you have any degree of rapport with your boss/leadership and you aren't performing overly well that can weigh on a person. Let alone in an environment like the ABs where a lot of those players have worked with Foster for many years, and had his support and trust etc.
Not to say I dismiss what the players are saying, or expect them to only praise and support Fozzie. The right way to express concerns is in private - but we (quite rightly) don't see that stuff aired.
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@Victor-Meldrew
He backs him 100% and will back whoever they choose in the future 100%.
Perhaps he is just being professional.Mate. if a senior AB who has captained the team makes a comment like that (which was pretty strong emotionally), then he's either a great actor or a bloody good liar. I don't think he's either.
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@Victor-Meldrew No doubt Ardie loves him. He speaks from the heart.
Not sure he has done a full survey of the team (especially the Sader players) as to who, in the cold light of day, they would prefer.
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@Victor-Meldrew No doubt Ardie loves him. He speaks from the heart.
Not sure he has done a full survey of the team (especially the Sader players) as to who, in the cold light of day, they would prefer.
He is speaking for himself - imoI think you are poss. reading too much into it. Taking Ardie's & Ritchie (Crusader) Mo'unga's comments on Foster at face value, it's pretty clear he has their confidence and they back him to the hilt
That might normally be a good thing but coming after yesterday's win, it complicates any decision on Foster's future. Would have been far better to have made the break after Ireland 3.
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@Paekakboyz said in Foster:
Not to say I dismiss what the players are saying, or expect them to only praise and support Fozzie. The right way to express concerns is in private - but we (quite rightly) don't see that stuff aired.
That would come out in the player reviews, which based on what has been made public, have not been critical of Foster unlike some of his (former) assistants.
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@Billy-Tell said in Foster:
They have 3 options
- fire foster
- confirm foster for RC then another review
- keep foster
I find it hard to get excited about yesterday as I can’t convince myself the corner is turned. More think it’s a false dawn.
There should be a simple message to Ian Foster.
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Did Robinson not scenario plan the last fortnight?
Win both: Fozzy has to stay and mostly everyone would agree that was fair.
Lose both badly: Fozzy gots to go.
Anything in between (1-1, game drawn, play great but lose 2 thrillers, players sent off):
Do nothing. Wait to see if the ABs avoid disaster vs Pumas and retain Bledisloe.
Robinson is obviously a terrible communicator and has no vision and is completely lacking in self awareness. Not great traits for a CEO.
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@game_film said in Foster:
Did Robinson not scenario plan the last fortnight?
Win both: Fozzy has to stay and mostly everyone would agree that was fair.
Lose both badly: Fozzy gots to go.
Anything in between (1-1, game drawn, play great but lose 2 thrillers, players sent off):
Do nothing. Wait to see if the ABs avoid disaster vs Pumas and retain Bledisloe.
Robinson is obviously a terrible communicator and has no vision and is completely lacking in self awareness. Not great traits for a CEO.
Plan? Wait what?
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@Bovidae but would NZR let that dirty laundry out? They seem to try and keep a positive spin aka 'due diligence' (fuck, I really dislike their mealy mouthed corp speak guff) going at every layer. It'd be very easy for them to say things were positive even if there was some pointed criticism of Foster. Again, another situation where the assistant coaches are treated very differently to the big cheese.
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I don’t think the players views have any significant weight in all this. Unless there is a Brumbies like coup/revolt happening… but this is a national team and no one is bigger than the jersey and all that…
The players are not making the decision. Player reviews are all part of the engagement strategy of the NZRU as an organisation. The way I look at it, the players didn’t have a say in the appointment, so why would their views matter now.
Comments from players do certainly add colour to it all and give journos and us fans plenty to discuss.
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All I am saying is that the feedback from the player reviews would be known to Robinson, Lendrum and the board so would inform their decision regardless of what the players may be saying publicly.
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The Breakdown panel are basically ripping Robinson and the rest of the board for their lack of clarity over Foster's future, and their incompetence over club rugby, 7s, the BFs, and Silverlake. I don't disagree with them. Foster may not be the man for the job. But the pressure Robinson has put him under with all of his nothing talk, and 3 reviews within 9 months including 2 in a couple of months, the CEO should have the stones to fire him or back him
