Is Umaga doing a good job?
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@rotated seriously pal, let it go, the Blues were never 'handcuffed' to anyone, even if they signed him for 3 seasons, they could still do what they did to Anscombe.
I know you have always claimed any Northland player is a 'token' player to appease our supposed powerhouse voting base within the Blues franchise.
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@rotated said in Is Umaga doing a good job?:
Deans made no demands and did not recruit his own assistants in 2008 with the Wallabies - famously he solely requested Lam himself as an assistant if he were the AB coach. Both had all the leverage to appoint brighter minds, but didn't see it as important. Many coaches don't when their ego gets in the way.
I've always thought that was a bit of bollocks, really.
Henry had an obvious advantage in that he could easily say he'd stick with Smith and Hansen. Unless Robbie had sounded out potential assistants - and that wouldn't necessarily be an obvious thing to have done, since he wasn't yet appointed - he wasn't really in a position to say "these are the guys I'm going to conscript".
