@Victor-Meldrew
Ok Mr grumpy.
The reason I said that is he will want to not have the same issues that Foster had after 2 years. He wants to have gained trust with players the board the public.
We don’t want a repeat of the shitfest that happened with Fozzie do we? That will just undermine him, his staff and playing group and not set us up for success.
He is the Ab coach, but with zero wins as AB coach. Over 3 months away until his first match as aB coach.
The ‘chasing’ of Whitelock now seems more like the approach from Whitelock’s agent. Putting feelers out, providing options for his client. He would be a useful player/mentor/whatever you call him to have for a specific area of the AB squad that is seen as one of our biggest problem areas.
If he came back, I doubt he will start 15 tests this year.
Razor is different. And thank fuck for that tbh. There is plenty of evidence that he is excellent at building outstanding rugby teams that are highly skilled, technically excellent, and big on culture as well as developing and improving players.
Why are people suddenly questioning him after reading some news articles?
I get what you are saying about working with what you have got. But, so many players have developed into ABs under Razor that I only see his as excellent in a player development role.
I am not advocating for this but people say we don’t need to change eligibility rules yet. I think people are waiting for a few years of poor AB results until it becomes inevitable that we do this. Why wait for years of losses to make this change? Wouldn’t it be ideal to be able to get ahead of it, so we don’t suffer a number of poor results that force us to change, and be able to use it to our advantage with certain players/positions that helps improve or results without having to go through the pain first?
I agree it seemed strange to see him discussing eligibility in the summer. It seemed a wrong step for him to take at first.